Product profile
Proteus
Amazon Robotics Proteus is an autonomous mobile warehouse robot designed to move through fulfillment facilities, handle GoCarts and support outbound packag...
Facts
- Company
- Amazon Robotics
- Product type
- autonomous_mobile_robot
- Status
- active
- Primary capability
- warehouse_transport
- Website
- https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/operations/amazon-robotics-robots-fulfillment-center
About Proteus
Amazon Robotics Proteus is an autonomous mobile warehouse robot designed to move through fulfillment facilities, handle GoCarts and support outbound package workflows alongside people.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Warehouse AMR
Core: Proteus
Function: GoCart transport
Audience: Fulfilment centres
Specifications
- autonomy
- First fully autonomous mobile robot; combines safety, perception and navigation technology
- deployed_sites
- Original Proteus deployed at 25 U.S. fulfillment centers sites
- interaction_next_generation
- Natural-language conversational task direction
- operational_role
- Outbound package handling and material movement
- payload_configuration
- Designed to lift and move GoCarts through fulfillment facilities
- payload_context_kg
- Moves carts weighing close to 400 kg kg
Operations
- Environment
- warehouse, fulfillment center, delivery site, indoor
- Primary user
- Amazon operations employees
- Role
- heavy-cart transport, material movement
- Interaction model
- autonomous navigation, human-shared workspace, natural-language direction on next generation
- Mobility class
- wheeled AMR
- Product detail
- https://zlsbkmaixmmnjrgpkcyp.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/robotics_assets/products/korthos-product-candidates-2026-08-19-batch-9/amazon-robotics-proteus-official-16x9.jpg, wheeled_mobile_robot, robot, 1600, 900, 4eb2d77b85d3904ec31b2a903ff0b893a92365e833a2f74567c2446693ed05c5, reviewed_16x9_official_media, Warehouse Case-Handling Robot, robotics_assets, https://assets.aboutamazon.com/f8/1b/29a9dcae4fe489b02d520132c0b6/about-amazon-inline-inline008-amazon-deliveringthefuture-robotics-a...
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