# Amazon Scout

Manufacturer: [Amazon](/companies/amazon)  
Category: sidewalk

## Media

- **Video (primary-source)**: [Amazon Scout sidewalk delivery (discontinued)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cItZtGQEL8). 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. Historical. _(via Amazon)_

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## Summary

Amazon Scout was Amazon's six-wheeled, cooler-sized autonomous sidewalk delivery robot, and the canonical sidewalk-delivery wind-down datapoint. Launched in January 2019 (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. There is no consumer price, and the program is discontinued: 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 rather than conducting mass layoffs. It is recorded at commercial maturity to reflect its historical peak of live customer field tests, with a discontinued lifecycle state. It is the canonical sidewalk wind-down alongside FedEx's paused Roxo: a verified-vs-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 are partly inherited from launch coverage.

## Top line

> Amazon Scout is discontinued, no capability claims are on file, the model has no verified field deployments in the registry, and no incidents are on record.

## Readiness

- **Availability** (discontinued): Discontinued.
- **Price honesty** (no-price): No price points on file for Amazon Scout.
- **Capability honesty** (no-claims): No reviewed capability claims on file for Amazon Scout.
- **Real-world use** (commercial): Maturity: commercial. No verified deployments in the registry.
- **Safety record** (no-incidents): No incidents on record. No verified deployments either.

## What it claims to do

_No reviewed capability claims on file._

## Price

_No reviewed price points on file._

## Real-world use

_No verified deployments on file for Amazon Scout._

## Safety record

_No incidents on record. No verified deployments either, so the absence is uninformative._

## Privacy

_No privacy practices disclosed or on file for Amazon Scout._

## 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)

## What's under the hood

_No brain on file for Amazon Scout._

## Frequently asked questions

### Is the Amazon Scout actually available for purchase?

Discontinued. No longer available for purchase.

_Source: [About Amazon — Amazon Robotics fulfillment center coverage](https://www.aboutamazon.com/)._

### What does the Amazon Scout cost?

Not announced.

### Where is the Amazon Scout being used?

No verified field deployments on record.

### Is the Amazon Scout safe?

No incidents on record, but with no verified field deployments either, the absence is uninformative.

### How does the Amazon Scout handle privacy?

No privacy practices disclosed or on file for Amazon Scout.

### Who makes the Amazon Scout?

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

_Source: [About Amazon — Amazon Robotics fulfillment center coverage](https://www.aboutamazon.com/)._

## Manufacturer

- [Amazon (https://www.aboutamazon.com/)](https://www.aboutamazon.com/)

## Compared to

- [Cartken Courier](/consumer/models/cartken-courier)
- [Coco Bot](/consumer/models/coco-bot)

## Sources

1. [Amazon abandons Scout autonomous home-delivery robot (Oct 6 2022; first reported)](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-06/amazon-abandons-autonomous-home-delivery-robot-in-latest-cut)
2. [Amazon scales back Scout delivery-robot program (field tests ended; ~400-person team)](https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/07/amazon-scales-back-scout-delivery-robot-program/)
3. [Amazon ends testing of Scout delivery robots (4 US markets)](https://www.therobotreport.com/amazon-ends-testing-of-scout-delivery-robots/)
4. [Amazon scraps Scout home-delivery robot](https://www.freightwaves.com/news/amazon-scraps-scout-home-delivery-robot)
5. [Meet Scout - Amazon official (program wound down ~Oct 2022; page live)](https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/transportation/meet-scout)
6. [About Amazon — Amazon Robotics fulfillment center coverage](https://www.aboutamazon.com/)
7. [TechCrunch — next-generation fulfillment center coverage](https://techcrunch.com/)
8. [Automate.org — Amazon Robotics surpasses one million systems deployed](https://www.automate.org/)
9. [AWS Insider — The Rise of Amazon AI Robots](https://www.awsinsider.net/)
10. [Jacobin — A Sober Look at Amazon's Automation Drive](https://jacobin.com/)
11. [Supply Chain Exchange — Shreveport DC coverage](https://www.thescxchange.com/)
12. [Metaintro — Amazon's 1 Million Robots (Fast Company investigation context)](https://metaintro.com/)
13. [Amazon introduces new fulfillment robotics (Sequoia, Proteus) (official)](https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/operations/amazon-introduces-new-robotics-solutions)
14. [Amazon tops 1 million robots; overview of its robot fleet (2025)](https://www.geekwire.com/2025/amazons-robot-workforce-hits-1-million-heres-what-they-all-do/)
15. [Amazon tests its Sequoia system and Agility Robotics' Digit for fulfillment](https://www.mmh.com/article/amazon_tests_its_sequoia_system_and_agility_robotics_digit_for_fulfillment)
16. [Amazon official YouTube (@AmazonNews), embedded under standard YouTube embed terms. oEmbed author_url verified 2026-06-04.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cItZtGQEL8) · 2026-06-04

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