Imagine this: A whisper-quiet Rivian Ev Amazon Delivery Truck pulls up to your front door, and before the driver even has a chance to go out, the back of Van quickly rolls up and out jumps a robot that carries a package for your door step.
It sounds like the things of science fiction but that reality can be closer than we think, according to a new report from The informationthat says Amazon is already running tests.
Instead of humanoid robots taking the Amazon delivery herd’s job, humanoid robots would work with the human drivers. The robots sat silently in the back and when it is time for the delivery of the package, they would find the box, open the door and carefully go to your home.
Amazon reportedly runs test drive and deliveries in a specially created ‘humanoid park’ that we assume would help recreate some of the obstacles the humanoid robot can encounter, like cars, humans, dogs, small wild animals, lawn sprinklers, veranda lamps, porch oscillation … You get the idea.
The information also reports that Amazon may be using large language models (LLMs) to help the humanoid robots tackle what is likely to be a difficult to predict the environment. After all, houses are not all cookie cutter. The doors, steps, lawns and even distances to the front doors are all different. Amazon is unlikely to program these robots to anticipate any unexpected obstacle, but LLMs can train them to deal with a much wider variety without knowing the details of each one in advance.
There is no mention that the robots are talking to Amazon customers, but with Amazon’s investment in Anthropics Claude AI seems a chattty Amazon Humanoid Supply Bot possible.
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As for which robots Amazon may be using, it has already tested Agility Robotics’ digit in a factory setting. However, I think it is unlikely that Amazon uses the robot to carry out deliveries of the home. Its strange appearance, which includes bird-like or backwards legs, can be somewhat disgusting to the average Amazon customer.
There is a bigger problem with this kind of robot. I saw digit in action on CES 2025, and although impressive, it was painfully slow at most tasks. If you’ve ever seen your Amazon delivery person jump out of the truck, jump into your back, knock out your package and run to your front steps before catching a photo for proof of delivery and then driving out to the next house, you know that an Amazon Humanoid Delivery robot should be quick.
There are other humanoid robot options out there from companies such as Boston Dynamics and its all-electric atlas. It has speed and carriage wheel skills (see above), but there is no timeline for commercial adoption. Unitree G1 can do karate, but it’s probably too small to carry larger Amazon packages.
According to the information report, there is a feeling that hardware can be the easy part, as, once they have trained in place, they can easily transfer it from a version of the Amazon delivery robot to another, apparently better, all of improving this delivery algorithm.
I have asked Amazon for Comment and will update this story if and when the company responds.
Amazon has some robotic delivery experiences. It has used drones (essentially flying robots) to deliver packages since 2022. They mostly fly smaller packages and then lower them carefully to your backyard before flying away. It’s not a service that Amazon offers everywhere.
None of this means Amazon’s Humanoid Robots will deliver packages at any time soon. Testing and development can take years, but if you add the opportunity for future driverless rivic EVs, the combination of a self-driving car is in the front and a clear-to-delivered robot at the back of a potentially cost-effective combination for Amazon. How delivery staff and customers may feel if it is another matter.
