Product profile
Vulcan
Amazon Vulcan is a warehouse robot designed for item handling inside fulfillment centers. It combines AI, cameras, force sensing and suction-based manipula...
Facts
- Company
- Amazon Robotics
- Product type
- industrial_robot
- Status
- active
- Primary capability
- manipulation
- Website
- https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/operations/amazon-vulcan-robot-pick-stow-touch
About Vulcan
Vulcan is Amazon's warehouse robot for stowing and retrieving items from fabric storage pods. Cameras, AI, force sensing and suction-based manipulation allow the system to handle products while detecting contact with shelves and surrounding structures.
Amazon deploys Vulcan within its own fulfilment network as part of a wider goods-to-person and storage workflow. It is internal logistics infrastructure, with performance shaped by inventory presentation, pod design and the surrounding automation system.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Warehouse robot
Core: Item handling
Function: Manipulation
Audience: Warehouses
Specifications
- arm_configuration
- single_articulated_arm
- autonomy_level
- task_autonomous
- end_effector_type
- adaptive_gripper_with_force_feedback
- force_torque_sensing
- Six-axis force and torque sensing
- integration_layer
- amazon_internal_robotics_stack
- item_type_coverage
- Approximately 75% of item types handled in Amazon fulfillment centers
- mobility
- fixed_installation
- operating_environment
- indoor_fulfillment_center
- pick_end_effector
- Suction cup with depth camera and force sensing
- stow_end_effector
- Force-sensing gripper with conveyor belts and an extensible blade
Operations
- Environment
- fulfillment center, indoor structured warehouse
- Primary user
- Amazon fulfillment operations teams
- Role
- Picking and stowing items in fabric inventory pods
- Interaction model
- Autonomous workcell with employee exception handling
- Mobility class
- Stationary manipulation system
- Product detail
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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