Product profile
Cardinal
Amazon Robotics Cardinal is a warehouse manipulation system that uses computer vision, a suction end effector and label reading to pick packages from a pil...
Facts
- Company
- Amazon Robotics
- Product type
- industrial_robot
- Status
- active
- Primary capability
- package_picking
- Website
- https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/operations/amazon-robotics-robots-fulfillment-center
About Cardinal
Amazon Robotics Cardinal is a warehouse manipulation system that uses computer vision, a suction end effector and label reading to pick packages from a pile and place them into a cart.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Manipulation system
Core: Cardinal
Function: Package picking
Audience: Fulfilment centres
Specifications
- end_effector_type
- Air-suction end effector
- max_payload_kg
- Handles packages up to 22.7 kg (50 lb) kg
- workflow_focus
- Picks a package from a pile, reads its label and places it in a cart
Operations
- Environment
- warehouse, outbound dock, indoor
- Primary user
- Amazon fulfillment operations
- Role
- package picking, label reading, GoCart loading
- Interaction model
- autonomous workcell
- Mobility class
- fixed manipulator
- Product detail
- https://zlsbkmaixmmnjrgpkcyp.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/robotics_assets/products/korthos-product-candidates-2026-08-19-batch-9/amazon-robotics-cardinal-official-16x9.jpg, stationary_manipulator, robot_system, 1600, 900, 5480e59291fca1f394cd309a23bc384653069ea5d6a04a79f4047dcf46cf3617, reviewed_16x9_official_media, Warehouse Manipulation System, robotics_assets, https://assets.aboutamazon.com/ea/1a/a3bf727f4af9bd6d47c1182069f5/about-amazon-inline-inline007-amazon-deliveringthefuture-...
Research, Articles and recent verified events
- Amazon introduces next-generation Proteus and expands Vulcan and STARK in Europe — 2026-06-04
- Amazon ends Blue Jay operations while retaining its underlying technology — 2026-02-25
- Amazon deploys its one-millionth robot and introduces DeepFleet — 2025-06-30
- Amazon Robotics introduces Vulcan for tactile pick-and-stow work — 2025-05-07
- Amazon begins testing Agility Robotics Digit for tote recycling — 2023-10-18
- Amazon reports more than 520,000 robotic drive units and introduces Proteus — 2022-06-21
- Amazon discloses more than 15,000 Kiva robots operating in fulfillment centers — 2014-12-01
- Amazon completes its acquisition of Kiva Systems — 2012-05-01