Amazon shelves Blue Jay warehouse robot months after launch, pivots to Orbital system

Amazon quietly shut down Blue Jay, a multi-armed robotic system for same-day delivery warehouses, just months after its October unveiling. Employees were reassigned to other robotics initiatives. The company is refocusing on its modular "Orbital" system. The move illustrates the difficulty of developing cost-effective AI robotics for physical environments, where useful training data is scarce and real-world challenges far exceed digital applications.

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