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Amazon Project Tetromino: The $530M Last-Mile Automation Bet

Amazon.com Inc. is planning Project Tetromino, a $530 million initiative to fully automate its last-mile delivery stations using AI, robotics, and computer vision, aiming to achieve 2.5 times the throughput of current manual stations, according to an internal planning document obtained by GeekWire.

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Amazon wants to eliminate human handlers from its last-mile delivery stations. A leaked internal planning document, obtained by GeekWire, describes Project Tetromino: a phased, $530 million initiative to fully automate the final step in Amazon’s delivery chain using AI, robotics, and computer vision. The stated goal is 2.5x the throughput of today’s manual stations. The name, borrowed from Tetris, is more honest than most project codenames — because the core software problem is genuinely, provably hard. It’s Called Tetromino for a Reason Tetrominos are the geometric shapes in Tetris. You arrange them, they pile up, and the challenge gets harder […]

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