{"id":"3802283f-6b55-4192-a9e6-98b249fe055d","companyId":"b9b40dbf-7909-4d29-9bd9-e23f21bf06f9","modelName":"Amazon Scout","slug":"amazon-scout","description":"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.","formFactor":"sidewalk","maturityStage":"commercial","lifecycleState":"discontinued","supersededByModelId":null,"specs":{"notes":[{"label":"Verified (the canonical sidewalk wind-down datapoint)","value":"Amazon Scout was Amazon's six-wheeled sidewalk delivery robot, field-tested across 4 US markets from Jan 2019. On Oct 6 2022 (Bloomberg first reported) Amazon wound it down: the customer-facing field-test program was discontinued, the dedicated field-test team disbanded (with employees reassigned/matched to other roles rather than mass layoffs). maturityStage=commercial (historical peak: live customer field tests across 4 markets); lifecycleState=discontinued (wound down 2022-10-06)."},{"label":"Pivot/wind-down pattern","value":"The canonical sidewalk-delivery wind-down, alongside FedEx Roxo (paused 2022). Verified-vs-claimed contrast case: a giant's program that reached commercial field-test scale then was discontinued, vs the survivors (Starship millions of deliveries, Serve, Coco) - same discipline as the discontinued truck legacies (Embark, TuSimple)."},{"label":"Claimed but NOT verified (cap-flag)","value":"The '~400 team' is Amazon's/Bloomberg's total-program headcount figure; the reassignment-vs-exit split is not disclosed. The city-level specifics ('Irvine', 'Snohomish County') are well-established for the CA/WA sites but several wind-down articles only say 'Southern California' and 'Washington' - consistent but partly inherited from launch coverage."}],"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)"},"manufacturerSerial":null,"reviewStatus":"reviewed","sources":[{"url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-06/amazon-abandons-autonomous-home-delivery-robot-in-latest-cut","title":"Amazon abandons Scout autonomous home-delivery robot (Oct 6 2022; first reported)","sourceName":"Bloomberg"},{"url":"https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/07/amazon-scales-back-scout-delivery-robot-program/","title":"Amazon scales back Scout delivery-robot program (field tests ended; ~400-person team)","sourceName":"TechCrunch"},{"url":"https://www.therobotreport.com/amazon-ends-testing-of-scout-delivery-robots/","title":"Amazon ends testing of Scout delivery robots (4 US markets)","sourceName":"The Robot Report"},{"url":"https://www.freightwaves.com/news/amazon-scraps-scout-home-delivery-robot","title":"Amazon scraps Scout home-delivery robot","sourceName":"FreightWaves"}],"aliases":["Amazon Scout","Scout delivery robot"],"collisionRisk":"low","reviewNote":null,"manufacturerTermForTeleop":null,"createdAt":"2026-06-03T21:25:57.732Z","updatedAt":"2026-06-03T21:25:57.732Z","jsonLd":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Product","@id":"https://registry.deploy.report/models/amazon-scout","url":"https://registry.deploy.report/models/amazon-scout","name":"Amazon Scout","alternateName":["Amazon Scout","Scout delivery robot"],"description":"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.","identifier":"3802283f-6b55-4192-a9e6-98b249fe055d","category":"sidewalk","publisher":{"@id":"https://deploy.report/#organization"}}}