Amazon Scout

Amazon Scout was Amazon's six-wheeled, cooler-sized autonomous sidewalk delivery robot, the canonical sidewalk-delivery wind-down datapoint. Launched in January 2019 with a first neighborhood in Snohomish County, Washington, it field-tested across four US markets, adding Irvine in Southern California in 2019 and Atlanta and Franklin, Tennessee in 2020. The registry records it at commercial maturity to reflect its historical peak of live customer field tests across those markets, with a discontinued lifecycle state: on October 6, 2022, first reported by Bloomberg, Amazon wound the program down, ending the customer-facing field tests and disbanding the dedicated field-test team while reassigning employees to other roles rather than conducting mass layoffs. It is recorded under the existing Amazon company as a discontinued historical record, the canonical sidewalk wind-down alongside FedEx's paused Roxo, a verified-versus-claimed contrast case of a giant's program reaching commercial field-test scale and then being discontinued while survivors such as Starship, Serve, and Coco continued, in the same spirit as the discontinued autonomous-truck legacies Embark and TuSimple. The figure of roughly 400 people who worked on Scout is Amazon's total-program headcount with the reassignment-versus-exit split not disclosed, and the city-level specifics, while well established for the California and Washington sites, are partly inherited from launch coverage since several wind-down articles cite only the broader regions.

Yes. Amazon Scout is independently verified in real-world operation on the DEPLOY registry, confirmed at named deployment sites with primary sources: not a concept, render, or demo-only.

Amazon Scout's recorded specifications on the DEPLOY registry: Max speed: 24 km/h; Weight: 45 kg; Payload: 23 kg. See the Specs section for the full sourced set.

Amazon Scout is made by Amazon, based in Seattle, Washington, USA, founded in 1994.

2 verified deployments of Amazon Scout are on the DEPLOY registry, including at Seattle, United States.

Amazon Scout is discontinued and no longer sold; its historical record remains on the DEPLOY registry.

On the DEPLOY registry, comparable sidewalk robots to Amazon Scout include Starship Bot, Serve Gen 3, Avride delivery robot, Starship Delivery Robot.

Amazon Scout and Starship Bot (Starship Technologies · 41 deployments) are both sidewalk robots on the DEPLOY registry. Amazon Scout has 2 verified deployments on record. Compare both records for specs, safety, deployments, and verified-vs-claimed autonomy.

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, safety, adoption, media, and IP signals, Amazon Scout ranks in roughly the top 22% of sidewalk models tracked by the registry.

Amazon Scout is at the commercial stage on the DEPLOY maturity ladder (research, prototype, pilot, commercial, production). Commercial stage means production-grade deployments are operating at named customer sites.

Amazon Scout is discontinued: the product line is permanently ceased; historical records remain on the registry.

Amazon Scout has no incidents on record in the DEPLOY registry. This does not constitute a safety guarantee; it reflects the incidents DEPLOY has tracked and verified to date.

Amazon ended live testing of Scout delivery robots in October 2022, officially cancelling the program in January 2023. Amazon stated certain aspects of the program were not meeting customers' needs. The company 'reoriented' the program and laid off the Scout team. Amazon Scout six-wheeled delivery robots are no longer operational.