Amazon has announced the development of a new warehouse robot named Vulcan. This robot is designed with a sense of touch, allowing it to detect some of the items it handles.

The robot, called Vulcan, has two arms that can move things in Amazon's storage areas. It has sensors that help it know when it touches something. One arm moves things around in a section, and the other arm, which has a camera and a suction cup, picks up things.

Amazon says the robot Vulcan learned from real information, like force and touch. It can pick about 75% of Amazon's items and can get better by itself over time. This robot is working in Spokane, Washington, and Hamburg, Germany. It has helped with 500,000 orders so far.

Vulcan is the newest robot Amazon has for its warehouses. Amazon uses many robots to get customer orders ready in its storage places around the world. Some people say Amazon is buying robots to get rid of human workers, but Amazon says this is not true. They say robots like Vulcan just make the warehouses safer.