Amazon is developing fully automated delivery stations under an internal project called Tetromino, covering the last facility packages pass through before drivers collect them, according to a planning document reviewed by Business Insider. The document laid out a $103 million pilot in 2028, five sites in 2029 at roughly $85 million apiece, and 10 more in 2030, for over $530 million by 2029, and said the design could handle packages about 2.5 times faster than existing stations. Amazon called the project early-stage and said the document’s spending numbers and timeline are wrong. Sorting and loading vans is among the hardest warehouse work to automate, and the document points to Boxbot, a startup whose system parks packages on trays and uses AI to pull and sequence them for loading.
