{"id":18749,"date":"2025-05-07T07:37:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T05:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/07\/amazon-makes-fundamental-leap-forward-in-robotics-with-device-having-sense-of-touch\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T07:37:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T05:37:16","slug":"amazon-makes-fundamental-leap-forward-in-robotics-with-device-having-sense-of-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/07\/amazon-makes-fundamental-leap-forward-in-robotics-with-device-having-sense-of-touch\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon makes \u2018fundamental leap forward in robotics\u2019 with device having sense of touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vulcan device \u2018capable of grabbing three-quarters of items in warehouses\u2019 fuels fears of mass job losses<\/p>\n<p>Amazon said it has made a \u201cfundamental leap forward in robotics\u201d after developing a robot with a sense of touch that will be capable of grabbing about three-quarters of the items in its vast warehouses.<\/p>\n<p>Vulcan \u2013 which launches at the US firm\u2019s \u201cDelivering the Future\u201d event in Dortmund, Germany, on Wednesday and is to be deployed around the world in the next few years \u2013 is designed to help humans sort items for storage and then prepare them for delivery as the latest in a suite of robots which have an ever-growing role in the online retailer\u2019s extensive operation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/may\/07\/amazon-makes-fundamental-leap-forward-in-robotics-with-device-having-sense-of-touch\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a0342d3118f7c1a1d9b64a2e77863047ce9e04d4\/9_0_6990_5592\/master\/6990.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e49508fb6a09c4935e5e98d49b58c8f4\" title=\"Amazon makes \u2018fundamental leap forward in robotics\u2019 with device having sense of touch\" \/>Vulcan device \u2018capable of grabbing three-quarters of items in warehouses\u2019 fuels fears of mass job losses<br \/>\nAmazon said it has made a \u201cfundamental leap forward in robotics\u201d after developing a robot with a sense of touch that will be capable of grabbing about three-quarters of the items in its vast warehouses.<br \/>\nVulcan \u2013 which launches at the US firm\u2019s \u201cDelivering the Future\u201d event in Dortmund, Germany, on Wednesday and is to be deployed around the world in the next few years \u2013 is designed to help humans sort items for storage and then prepare them for delivery as the latest in a suite of robots which have an ever-growing role in the online retailer\u2019s extensive operation. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vulcan device \u2018capable of grabbing three-quarters of items in warehouses\u2019 fuels fears of mass job losses Amazon said it has made a \u201cfundamental leap forward in robotics\u201d after developing a robot with a sense of touch that will be capable of grabbing about three-quarters of the items in its vast warehouses. Vulcan \u2013 which launches &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/07\/amazon-makes-fundamental-leap-forward-in-robotics-with-device-having-sense-of-touch\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amazon makes \u2018fundamental leap forward in robotics\u2019 with device having sense of touch<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18749"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}