Amazon Builds Obstacle Course to Train Humanoid Delivery Robots

Amazon is developing AI software and testing humanoid robots to eventually assist or replace human delivery drivers, starting with indoor trials at a new obstacle course called the “humanoid park” in San Francisco. The company hopes future robots can ride in the back of its Rivian vans and help deliver packages. Initial tests will use hardware like China’s $16K Unitree bots and others, while Amazon trains foundation models and multimodal AI to handle physical tasks and real-world environments. Outdoor “field trip” tests are expected later this year.