Amazon unveils its Shreveport fulfillment center

2024-10-09 · Publisher : Amazon · Domain : Robotics

Amazon unveils its next-generation fulfillment center in Shreveport, Louisiana, with ten times more robotics: Sequoia, Proteus, Sparrow, Robin and Cardinal cover every key production area.

### What changes On October 9, 2024, Amazon unveiled its next-generation fulfillment center in Shreveport, Louisiana, "powered by AI and 10 times more robotics". For the first time, robotic systems cover every key production area of a site. ### Specifications - Five floors and more than 3 million square feet, 2,500 employees once fully ramped up. - Sequoia, a multilevel containerized inventory system, can hold more than 30 million items. - Robin, Cardinal and Sparrow, an AI-powered trio of robotic arms, sort, stack and consolidate items and orders. - Proteus, Amazon's first fully autonomous mobile robot, moves carts of packages to the outbound dock. ### Why it matters Amazon makes Shreveport the template for its future sites. It reports up to 25% faster fulfillment processing and aims for a 25% improvement in cost to serve during peak seasons. It also expects 30% more reliability, maintenance and engineering roles. ### Key takeaways Shreveport marks the shift from robots deployed area by area to a site designed around robotics from the start, meant to be replicated across Amazon's network.

Tags : Logistique, Entrepôt, IA, Robots mobiles, États-Unis