In Greek mythology, Proteus was a prophetic, shape-shifting god.
At Amazon, Proteus is a fully autonomous warehouse robot that can operate in the same space as human employees.
The robot—which, unlike its predecessors, will not have to be confined to a specific area, will instead move around warehouse employees thanks to “advanced safety, perception and navigation technology.”
This creates “a broader range of possible uses to help our employees,” the platform wrote in a blog post. That includes moving GoCarts, or the devices that ferry packages around Amazon’s warehouses.
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Proteus will initially be placed in outbound handling areas, but Amazon hopes to “automate GoCart handing throughout the network,” which it said will “reduce the need for people to manually move heavy objects.”
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