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Amazon Scout at Seattle, Washington, USA

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.

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Machine-readable surfaces

Amazon Scout sidewalk delivery robots deployed in Seattle, Irvine, Atlanta, and Franklin TN. Discontinued in 2022 after limited scale. Program fully wound down.

Safety record

No incidents on record for Amazon Scout at Seattle, Washington, USA.

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Trust tier
Unverified
Last updated
2026-07-08
Model
Amazon Scout
Company
Amazon
Location
Seattle, Washington, USA
Status
ended
First seen
2019-01-01
ID
190d1cb9-62c4-47e8-982a-2ab781570def

Sources (1)

  1. Last-Mile Delivery Robots Move Beyond the Testing Phase · https://www.thomasnet.com/insights/top-delivery-robot-companies/ · 2019-01-01
Methodology: Unreviewed · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-07-08

Verification posture

Unreviewed

Low confidence

Review state

Stable

Last reviewed 2026-07-08

Maturity + lifecycle

Maturity stage: commercial

Lifecycle: discontinued

Architectural position

Cohort: sidewalk

Sources by quality tier

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Common questions

What is the Amazon Scout deployment at Seattle, Washington, USA?
Amazon Scout, built by Amazon, is recorded as a deployment at Seattle, Washington, USA on the DEPLOY registry. Amazon operates the deployment directly.
Who operates Amazon Scout at Seattle, Washington, USA?
Amazon, the manufacturer of Amazon Scout, operates this deployment directly. This is a maker-deploys-its-own-product arrangement rather than a customer pilot.
When did the Amazon Scout deployment at Seattle, Washington, USA go live?
The deployment is recorded as starting January 1, 2019 on the DEPLOY registry. Earlier activity may exist but is not yet sourced.
Is the Amazon Scout deployment at Seattle, Washington, USA still active?
As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, this deployment is no longer operating at this location.
Have there been incidents at the Amazon Scout deployment at Seattle, Washington, USA?
No active incidents affecting this deployment are recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Absence of recorded incidents is not a guarantee no incident occurred; DEPLOY records only sourced incidents and suppresses retracted ones.

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