Amazon states it has created a new warehouse robot called Vulcan, which is able to "feel" some items it touches.

The two-armed Vulcan robot moves things in Amazon's warehouses and uses sensors to feel when it touches something. One arm moves items, and the other arm, with a camera and suction cup, picks them up.

Amazon states that Vulcan learned from real data, such as information about force and touch, to select about 75% of Amazon's products. The company adds that Vulcan can improve itself over time. The robot is currently working in Spokane, Washington, and Hamburg, Germany, where it has completed 500,000 orders so far.

Vulcan is the newest type of robot used by Amazon in its warehouses, which already has hundreds of thousands of robots that help process customer orders around the world. Some people believe that Amazon is using robots to replace human workers, but Amazon says that robots like Vulcan only make the warehouses safer.