Amazon announced a new warehouse robot named Vulcan which can sense some things it touches.

The two-armed robot, called Vulcan, can move goods inside Amazon's storage areas. It has force sensors to feel when it touches something. One arm moves things around, and the second arm, which has a camera and a suction cup, picks up items.

Amazon states that Vulcan was taught using real-world information, such as force and touch, to choose about 75% of Amazon's products. It can also learn and get better by itself. The robot is currently being used in Spokane, Washington, and Hamburg, Germany. So far, it has handled 500,000 orders in these places.

Vulcan is the newest robot added to Amazon's large group of warehouse robots. Amazon uses hundreds of thousands of these robots to pack and send out customer orders from its storage buildings around the world. Some people say that Amazon is investing a lot in robots to replace human workers. However, Amazon says this is not true and that robots like Vulcan just make its warehouses safer.