Amazon’s Vulcan Robot with Sense of Touch: ‘Fundamental Leap Forward in Robotics’

Amazon unveiled on Wednesday the company’s first robot to have a sense of touch. The tech giant introduced the Vulcan robot model during its annual Delivering the Future event, held in Dortmund, Germany this year.Vulcan represents a significant improvement over typical fulfillment robots, which Aaron Parness, Amazon director of applied science, described as “numb and dumb” due to their lack of sensors.Vulcan improves on previous Amazon robotsVulcan is not the first Amazon robot