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From: Julius Wong	5/7/2025 8:58:46 PM
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Amazon Has Made a Robot With a Sense of Touch Amazon has developed a new warehouse robot that uses touch to rummage around shelves to find the right product to ship to customers. The robot, called Vulcan, is a meaningful step toward making robots less sausage-fingered compared to human beings. Honing robots’ tactile abilities further may allow them to take on more fulfillment and manufacturing work in the years ahead. Aaron Parness, Amazon’s director of robotics AI who led the development of Vulcan, explains that touch sensing helps the robot push items around on a shelf and identify what it’s after. “When you’re trying to stow [or pick] items in one of these pods, you can't really do that task without making contact with the other items,” he says. The Vulcan system consists of a conventional robotic arm with a custom spatula-like appendage for poking into a shelf and a sucker for grabbing items to pull them out. Vulcan has sensors on several of its joints that allow the robot to detect the edges and contours of items. Parness says that machine learning is key to making sense of the sensor signals and also forms part of the algorithmic loop that controls how a robot takes actions. “The special sauce we have is the software interpretation of the force torque and how we wrap those into our control loop and into our motion plans,” he says. Amazon revealed Vulcan at a fulfillment center in Hamburg, Germany, today. The company says the robot is already working at this facility and another in Spokane, Washington. The new robots will work on the same line as human pickers and will aim to spare them from back-aching work by grasping more items from shelves that are high up or down low. Items that the robot decides it cannot find will be reassigned to human workers. wired.com

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