Amazon has announced a new robot with a sense of touch, enabling it to pick up and stow around three-quarters of the items found in its warehouses.

Amazon has rolled out new robots, called Vulcan, which are able to "feel" with a human-like touch and can take over intricate tasks such as picking and packing from warehouse workers.

Amazon gave CNBC a first look at its new warehouse robot, Vulcan, that can “feel” objects, enabling it to do a job only humans could previously handle.

Amazon has just unveiled its newest warehouse robot called Vulcan, which has a “sense of touch”. Designed to gently stow items using pressure-sensitive gripping and artificial intelligence (AI), ...

Inside Amazon’s 100,000-square-foot Greenwood warehouse—which provides the greater Indianapolis area same-day shipping for everything from paper plates to vitamins—robots and people ...

DeepFleet is a new generative AI model that will help Amazon's robots fulfil deliveries in a speedier fashion, using more optimal navigation.

While robots are not taking over warehouses, experts say, they are making processes faster, safer and easier on the workers.