Amazon’s first fully autonomous robot, Proteus, has a lot of responsibilities.Its main job is to pick up trolleys full of parcels and get them where they need to be. But it is also carries a ...

Amazon has unveiled Proteus, the e-commerce giant's first fully autonomous mobile warehouse robot. Proteus, which utilizes "advance safety, perception and navigation technology" to safely navigate ...

As the video shows, Amazon’s new robot works by driving beneath a cart and then elevating to lift it off the ground. Proteus is then able to transport the cart to a designated destination.

Proteus isn’t Amazon’s only new robot to hit warehouses in the near future. In the same press release, the company touted Cardinal, ...

The company has even posted a video of Proteus showing the robot moving under the carts and transporting them to other locations. “Proteus is our first fully autonomous mobile robot.

Proteus will go and charge itself when it's running out of juice, taking just eight minutes to be back navigating carts of packages weighing up to 880lb so they can be loaded into trucks.

Amazon's robot army is still significantly smaller than its employee total, which stood at 1.525 million full-time and part-time workers at the end of last year, per its annual report.

Initially, Proteus will work in the GoCart handling areas of Amazon’s fulfillment and sort centers, though the company did not say when deployment of the robots would start.

Amazon said its Proteus robot can safely work in facilities and move around staff, while the company has revealed other robotic models designed to improve warehouse safety.

In a post looking back over the past 10 years since it purchased robotics company Kiva, Amazon has revealed its new machines, including its first fully autonomous warehouse robot.It's called ...