Amazon has been using robots to manage and automate their warehouses for years. Here’s a short feature on their current robot, Hercules. This is absolutely Amazon tooting their own horn ...

JOHNSTON — On the fifth floor of the new, towering Amazon distribution facility in Johnston, supersized Roomba-like Hercules robots crisscross a mostly empty concrete floor in a giant fenced-off ...

On each storage floor, a vast central space is fenced off as the domain of Amazon’s Hercules robots — round, flat machines on ...