Vulcan: How Amazon’s robot locates and retrieves products using vision and touch

Amazon has introduced a new warehouse robot, Vulcan, designed to locate and retrieve products by using both vision and touch—mimicking the way humans navigate cluttered environments. CEO Andy Jassy described it as “the first robot that combines sight and touch”, allowing it to “feel its way through cluttered spaces the way humans do”.“Vulcan is helping make work safer by handling ergonomically challenging tasks, while creating opportunities for our teammates to grow their skills in robotics maintenance,” Jassy shared in a post on…