Amazon quietly ended its Blue Jay warehouse robot program just months after unveiling the multi-armed ceiling-mounted system designed to speed same-day deliveries in October.

Just months after calling Blue Jay a core warehouse technology, the company shelved it as part of a broader shift in how its ...

Amazon pulled the plug on Blue Jay, its high-profile warehouse robot, in January 2026, barely three months after the system was introduced at a splashy company event. The rapid shutdown of a project ...

Amazon shutters Blue Jay robot as it transitions to Orbital, a new modular warehouse system enhancing same-day delivery ...

Amazon said Blue Jay's core tech will be used for other robotics projects and the employees who worked on it were moved to ...

Amazon has shelved the picking system months after launch, reallocating staff and repurposing the technology for new ...

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The discontinuation marks a major course correction in Amazon's robotics strategy – and underscores the persistent gap between AI's rapid progress in software and its slower, ...