Amazon Prepares Humanoid Robots for Deliveries in the US

Amazon has been developing software to enable humanoid robots to make package deliveries. On Wednesday, The Information revealed that the tech giant is building a “humanoid park” at its facilities in San Francisco and will soon begin testing multiple robots, including models from the Chinese company Unitree.

According to Elektrek, Amazon’s goal is to make the autonomous robots replace human workers, ride the Rivian electric delivery vans, and deliver the packages to the customer’s doors.

Amazon rolled out over 20,000 electric delivery vans in the past few months, as part of its net-zero carbon initiative, and expects to expand its fleet to 100,000 by 2030.

For now, humans are still in charge of driving the Rivian vehicles and delivering the packages. Anonymous sources told The Information that Amazon will soon test its software on multiple robots from different third-party companies, but only mentioned the Chinese startup Unitree—which recently demonstrated its capabilities and skills in the world’s first robot kickboxing competition.

Amazon is already planning to deploy the humanoid robots on “field trips” to test its delivery capabilities and skills to avoid obstacles.

The software that is expected to be used by the robots is powered by AI models such as DeepSeek-VL2 and Alibaba’s Qwen.

Amazon has already been using over 750,000 robots in its facilities to perform multiple tasks—including the recently introduced Vulcan model, which can “feel” the items it touches and organizes orders efficiently—but this would be the first time the company bets on humanoid models that leave the facilities and explore the outdoors.

The company also announced on Wednesday that it will invest $10 billion to expand its AI infrastructure in North Carolina, creating around 500 new jobs to support its data centers.