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Amazon introduced Blue Jay on 22in October 2025 as a system coordinating several robotic arms in one workspace, doingcombining the work of three separate robotic stations for picking, stowing and consolidating. [S] Itconsolidating; it was being tested in production at a facility in South Carolina, Carolina facility, where it could handle roughlyabout 75% of all the item types stored there. Amazon stores. [S] said it went from concept to production in just over a year, against three or more years for earlier systems, and Amazon Robotics' chief technologist Tye Brady said the real headline was not about robots. On 25 February 2026 Amazon added a notean update to that announcement saying it is no longer…operations, and that the technology behind it will continue to supportkeep supporting employees across the network. [S] Reporting on the decision attributes it to The halt was first reported by Business Insider in mid-February; TechCrunch quoted spokesperson Terrence Clark saying Blue Jay was launched as a prototype, which the robot being expensive original press release had not made clear, and difficult that Amazon was accelerating use of the underlying technology in other manipulation programs, with staff moved to manufacture, awkward other projects. Reasons were not given by Amazon in those reports; BGR, citing others, put it down to high cost and hard manufacturing, poor fit intowith existing warehouse workflows,workflows and out of step a change in Amazon's warehouse strategy, with a shift towards smaller, more flexible facilities. [1] reconfigurable system called Orbital reportedly coming later, around 2027. Context: Amazon has run its robotics program since buying Kiva Systems in 2012 and passed one million warehouse robots in July 2025; its Vulcan two-armed robot, also unveiled in 2025, continues. Project Eluna, the agentic AI system announced alongside Blue Jay and piloted at for a Tennessee pilot, is a Tennessee fulfilment centre, was not withdrawn. [S]separate effort that the update note does not mention.