Imagine this: an EV Amazon Rivian’s delivery truck stops towards its main door, and before the driver has the opportunity to leave, the rear of the truck is rolled and outstands a robot jumps a robot that takes a package to his door.
It sounds like the science fiction material, but that reality may be closer than we think, according to a new report from The informationHe says that Amazon is already executing evidence.
Instead of humanoid robots that take the work of the Amazon delivery team, humanoid robots would work together with human conductors. The robots would sit in silence in the back, and when the time came for the delivery of packages, they would find the box, open the door and carefully headed to their home.
According to the reports, Amazon is executing units and test deliveries in a ‘humanoid park’ specially created, which we assume would help recreate some of the obstacles that humanoid robot could find, such as cars, people, dogs, small wild animals, grass sprinklers, porch lamps, swings … you understand.
The information also reports that Amazon could be using large language models (LLM) to help humanoid robots deal with what is probably a difficult environment to predict. The houses are not all cookies, after all. The doors, steps, caes and even distances to the front doors are all different. It is unlikely that Amazon can program these robots to anticipate each unexpected obstacle, but the LLMs can train them to handle a much wider variety without knowing in advance the details of each one.
The robots that speak with Amazon customers are not mentioned, but with Amazon’s investment in Claude Ai de Anthrope, a Amazon Amazon Delivery Delivery of Amazon’s humanoid seems possible.
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As for the robots that Amazon could be using, it has already been testing the Agility Robotics digit in a factory environment. However, I think it is unlikely that Amazon will use that robot to complete domestic deliveries. Its strange appearance, which includes bird legs or backward, could be something unpleasant for Amazon’s average customer.
There is a major problem with this type of robot. I saw a digit in action in CES 2025 and, although impressive, it was painfully slow in most tasks. If you have ever seen your Amazon delivery person out of the truck, jump to the back, run with your package and run to the front steps before capturing a photo for the delivery test and then run to the next house, you know that a Amazon humanoid delivery robot is better to be fast.
There are other humanoid robots options such as Boston Dynamics and their All-Electric Atlas. It has speed skills and cart wheels (see above), but there is no timeline for commercial adoption. Unitree G1 can make karate, but it is likely to be too small to transport larger Amazon packages.
According to the information report, there is a feeling that the hardware can be the easy part, since, once they have the training in their place, they can easily transfer it from a version of the Amazon delivery robot to another, apparently better, all as long as they improve that delivery algorithm.
I have asked Amazon and I will update this story if the company responds.
Amazon has a robot delivery experience. He has been using drones (essentially flying robots) to deliver packages since 2022. Those who mostly fly smaller packages and then carefully lower them to their backyard before flying. It is not a service that Amazon offers everywhere.
None of this means that Amazon humanoid robots will deliver packages in the short term. Tests and development could take years, but if it adds the possibility of future EV Rivian without driver, the combination of an autonomous car in the front and a robot ready to deliver in the back is a potentially profitable combination for Amazon. How delivery staff and customers can feel about it is another matter.
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