# Amazon Scout: robot model

Canonical ID: `3802283f-6b55-4192-a9e6-98b249fe055d`

**Lifecycle:** discontinued. The product or service is no longer actively pursued by the maker.

- **Slug:** amazon-scout
- **Form factor:** sidewalk
- **Maturity stage:** commercial
- **Lifecycle:** discontinued
- **Deployments registered:** 0

## Specs

- **notes:** [object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
- **specs:** Amazon Scout: six-wheeled, cooler-sized autonomous sidewalk delivery robot. Launched Jan 2019 (first market Snohomish County WA). 4 US markets: Snohomish County WA (2019), Irvine / Southern California (2019), Atlanta GA (2020), Franklin TN (2020). Wound down announced Oct 6 2022 (field tests ended). ~400 people worked on Scout globally.
- **formFactor:** sidewalk (six-wheeled cooler-sized autonomous sidewalk delivery robot; DISCONTINUED)

## Deployments

_No deployments registered for this model._

## Supply chain

_No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this model's suppliers._

_Suppliers appear when verified with at least two strong sources. Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history._

## 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.

### Who makes Amazon Scout?

Amazon Scout is made by Amazon, based in Seattle, Washington, USA, founded in 1994.

### Where is Amazon Scout deployed?

No verified deployments of Amazon Scout are currently on the DEPLOY registry. DEPLOY records deployments only when verified at a named site with a primary source; absence may reflect pre-deployment, research, or manufacturer-internal use.

### 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.


## Sources (4)

1. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-06/amazon-abandons-autonomous-home-delivery-robot-in-latest-cut
2. https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/07/amazon-scales-back-scout-delivery-robot-program/
3. https://www.therobotreport.com/amazon-ends-testing-of-scout-delivery-robots/
4. https://www.freightwaves.com/news/amazon-scraps-scout-home-delivery-robot

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