![]() This "robot face" appears to be designed so it can peak out from under a cage and get in front of the two wheels for health & safety reasons.Īmazon have released a few videos showing off the robot to the public. This It appears to host a puck lidar sensor and two ToF cameras placed at a slight downward and a sharp upwards angle. The green AMR or mobile robot has a very distinct design with a protruding "face" in the front. Proteus looks like it is behaving like an AMR, using natural feature navigation. ![]() Download our G2P reports to read more on this ( STIQ free market reports) The Proteus RobotĪ decade after from the Kiva acquisition and three years after the Canvas acquisition, Amazon Robotics finally released (to the public) their "Proteus" robot. STIQ has discussed the acquisition in our G2P and AGV & AMR Robotics reports and what it may mean for Amazon. Canvas' technology could be used both in and outside and one of the founders moved to head up Amazon's Driverless Vehicle division. This is also known as "AMR technology" (AMR = Autonomous Mobile Robot). In 2019, Amazon acquired Canvas robotics, a company then at the forefront of R&D in the "natural feature" navigation space. However, STIQs view is that Amazon's robotics team optimised and improved the Kiva technology and reached a plateau around 2017/2018 where they couldn't make any additional significant improvements to the system. These "G2P AGVs" (Goods to Person Automatic Guided Vehicles) were highly effective and partly responsible for Amazon's increasingly fast delivery promises and their competitive advantage. Most (if not all) of these 520,000 robots have relied on a fiducial (think a "QR code") in the ground to locate itself, often along a matrix layout. Various media outlets assume Amazon have deployed c.520,000 of these mobile robots. The Pegasus (based on the original Kiva design) is probably the most well known of the Amazon Robotics versions and has also been deployed as a sortation robot. Since 2012, the original Kiva robot has gone through a few iterations, new robot versions or upgrades have been released. Kiva also formed the base for what the division now known as "Amazon Robotics". We take every small learning and let that inspire us to think big and build for the long term.In 2012, Amazon acquired Kiva Systems, a warehouse robotics company, for $775m (and also triggered increased activity in the wider warehouse robotics sector). It’s a deliberate approach in which we involve our operations employees to get real-time feedback and a true understanding of how our new technology can help us optimize our sites for safety, efficiency, and to better meet our customer promise. We build on this approach to serve more and more facilities across our operations network. Once the technology demonstrates that it works well, we test the same system on another process path at the same site. This starts with testing a robot on a small process path at a designated facility, and seeing how new technology supports and works collaboratively alongside our employees. We’re testing our newest robotics systems at a number of sites, building them in a very practical way and with an approach that is unique to Amazon. It’s hard to believe how far we’ve come since the days of testing a few robots in a corner of one of our facilities. ![]() We’ve become the world’s largest manufacturer of industrial robots and have deployed more than 750,000 mobile robots across our worldwide operations. In 2022, 1 billion packages, or one-eighth of all the orders we delivered to customers worldwide, was sorted by Robin, one of Amazon’s robotic handling systems.
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