Amazon stops testing a delivery robot

An Amazon spokeswoman said in an emailed statement Thursday that the company will stop live testing of its Amazon Scout delivery robot after the US retailer realized that the software did not fully meet the needs of its customers.
Spokeswoman Alyssa Carroll added that the company is now working to reduce or “reset” the program, and will work with the relevant employees to redistribute them to other available jobs within the company, adding that it will not abandon the project completely.
Amazon began testing Scout, a small cooler-sized robot that moves along sidewalks at a brisk pace, in Washington state in 2019 before expanding to Southern California, Georgia and Tennessee.