Amazon is investing $12 billion in European fulfillment, adding 25,000 jobs and rolling out robots Proteus, Stark and Vulcan to speed up delivery.

Amazon announces next-generation Proteus that can be directed in plain language like a colleague at the same time employees protest layoffs

Amazon on Thursday unveiled an upgraded ‌AI-powered mobile robot for its warehouses that can respond to conversational prompts, as part of a €10 billion ($11.6 billion) investment in its European fulfilment network.

Amazon has placed its one-millionth warehouse robot inside a fulfillment center in Japan, a fleet size that now stretches across more than 300 facilities worldwide. The milestone lands alongside two operational advances the company is betting on to squeeze more speed out of that hardware: Sequoia,