Robot model
Amazon Scout
Amazon Scout was Amazon's six-wheeled, cooler-sized autonomous sidewalk delivery robot, the canonical sidewalk-delivery wind-down datapoint.
- Manufacturer
- Amazon
- Form factor
- sidewalk
- Maturity
- commercial
- Lifecycle
- discontinued
- Deployments
- 2
- Website
- aboutamazon.com ↗
Appears inLogistics robots
discontinuedDiscontinued. The product or service is no longer actively pursued by the maker.
Overview
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.
Verified vs. claimed
- Maturity stage
- commercial(Commercially deployed with revenue-generating operations.)
- Verified deployments
- 2 deployments on file
- Sources on file
- 6 sources, view all
Key facts
Form factor
Launch date
Markets tested
Team size
Lifecycle state
Specs
Notes
Specs
Max speed
Weight kg
Form Factor
Payload kg
Data & sources
News coverage
3
Web sources
3
6 sources backing this record.View all →
Availability and pricing
- Availability
- Discontinued
- Price
- Not publicly disclosed
- Units in field
- Not disclosed
- Sales model
- Not disclosed
- Lead time
- Not disclosed
Pricing
No verified price is on record for Amazon Scout. Physical-AI systems are often sold through enterprise contracts or operated as a service rather than at a public list price.
Deployments (2)
Amazon Scout sidewalk delivery robots deployed in Seattle, Irvine, Atlanta, and Franklin TN.
Amazon Scout was a sidewalk delivery robot program operating in the United States, launched in 2019.
Amazon Scout on the deployment map
Where Amazon Scout is verified operating. Explore the deployment map by place and type.
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Price point recordedJul 8, 2026
Not announced
- Verified media addedVerifiedJun 4, 2026
Amazon Scout sidewalk delivery (discontinued)
- Record createdJun 3, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJan 23, 2019
at United States
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJan 1, 2019
at Seattle, Washington, USA
Deployment-verified media (1)
Amazon footage of Scout, its sidewalk-delivery robot, from its test program. Scout was an open-world sidewalk-delivery device run with human chaperones; Amazon discontinued the program in 2022.
From deployment: United States
Safety record
No incidents on record for Amazon Scout.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Sources (6)
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-06/amazon-abandons-autonomous-home-delivery-robot-in-latest-cut
- https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/07/amazon-scales-back-scout-delivery-robot-program/
- https://www.therobotreport.com/amazon-ends-testing-of-scout-delivery-robots/
- https://www.freightwaves.com/news/amazon-scraps-scout-home-delivery-robot
- https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/transportation/meet-scout
- https://www.dimensions.com/element/amazon-scout
Common questions
- What is 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.
- How much does Amazon Scout cost?
- Amazon Scout's price is not publicly disclosed. DEPLOY has no verified price on record for Amazon Scout from Amazon. Physical-AI systems like this are often sold through enterprise contracts or operated as a service rather than at a public list price; check the manufacturer for the latest.
- Is Amazon Scout actually deployed in the real world?
- 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.
- What are the specs of Amazon Scout?
- 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.
- Who makes Amazon Scout?
- Amazon Scout is made by Amazon, based in Seattle, Washington, USA, founded in 1994.
- Where is Amazon Scout deployed?
- 2 verified deployments of Amazon Scout are on the DEPLOY registry, including at Seattle, Washington, USA, United States.
- Can you buy Amazon Scout?
- Amazon Scout is discontinued and no longer sold; its historical record remains on the DEPLOY registry.
- What are alternatives to Amazon Scout?
- On the DEPLOY registry, comparable sidewalk robots to Amazon Scout include Coco Bot, Dax ADA, Serve Gen 3, Starship Bot.
- How does Amazon Scout compare to Coco Bot?
- Amazon Scout and Coco Bot (Coco Robotics · 8 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.
- Is Amazon Scout a top sidewalk?
- On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, safety, adoption, media, and IP signals, Amazon Scout ranks in roughly the top 43% of sidewalk models tracked by the registry.
- What is Amazon Scout's maturity stage?
- 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.
- Is Amazon Scout still being made?
- Amazon Scout is discontinued: the product line is permanently ceased; historical records remain on the registry.
- Is Amazon Scout safe?
- 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.
- Why was Amazon Scout discontinued?
- 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.
Methodology: Verified · 6 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-07-15
Verification posture
Verified
Medium confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-07-15
Maturity + lifecycle
Maturity stage: commercial
Lifecycle: discontinued
Architectural position
Cohort: sidewalk
Sources by quality tier
- 3
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
- 1
- secondary-established-publication
- Established publication
- 1
- secondary-industry-publication
- Industry publication
- 1
- secondary-trade-publication
- Trade publication
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Amazon Scout.Recent coverage
Amazon Scout in third-party press
Attention vs reality over time
Media mentions per month (area) against verified deployment events (dots). A press spike over a flat deployment line is the hype gap, drawn over time.
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Amazon Scout from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
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Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /models/amazon-scout.md
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/models/3802283f-6b55-4192-a9e6-98b249fe055d
- Revision history: /models/amazon-scout/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Buyer-facing pricing: deploy.report/price/amazon-scout
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Reality vs attention
Amazon Scout draws attention at the 97th percentile but verifies reality at the 27th percentile among sidewalk robots. Hype Gap +70.7, 1st widest among sidewalk robots.
Analysis
Strong recent media coverage and press activity. Thin deployment record; scale validation still in progress.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Jul 18, 2026