Amazon shutters Blue Jay robot as it transitions to Orbital, a new modular warehouse system enhancing same-day delivery ...

Amazon quietly ended its Blue Jay warehouse robot program just months after unveiling the multi-armed ceiling-mounted system designed to speed same-day deliveries in October.

Amazon pulled the plug on Blue Jay, its high-profile warehouse robot, in January 2026, barely three months after the system was introduced at a splashy company event. The rapid shutdown of a project ...

Amazon unveiled a new robotics system for its warehouses that can pick, sort and consolidate packages in a single assembly line. The system is called Blue Jay, and Amazon said it's already being ...

The discontinuation marks a major course correction in Amazon's robotics strategy – and underscores the persistent gap between AI's rapid progress in software and its slower, ...

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Just months after calling Blue Jay a core warehouse technology, the company shelved it as part of a broader shift in how its fulfillment network will work.

Amazon shelved its Blue Jay warehouse robot within months of launch, underscoring how hard it is to scale AI robotics cost-effectively.