Amazon Scout is the canonical sidewalk-delivery wind-down anchor of the cohort: a giant's program that reached commercial field-test scale across four US markets, then was discontinued, the verification-posture counterweight to survivors Starship, Serve, and Coco (the same shape as the wound-down truck legacies Embark and TuSimple and the wound-down robotaxi Cruise).
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The history is well-documented: launched January 2019 in Snohomish County, Washington, field-tested across four US markets, then wound down on October 6, 2022 (first reported by Bloomberg), ending customer-facing field tests.
Price
No reviewed price is on record. We do not treat unverified analyst estimates as pricing data. There is no consumer price, and the program is discontinued. Scout was a captive Amazon delivery field-test, not a robot sold to consumers, so DEPLOY records zero price points.
Availability
Discontinued
The Amazon Scout program is discontinued. After field-testing across four US markets from January 2019, Amazon wound the program down on October 6, 2022, ending the customer-facing field tests.
Real-world status
Amazon Scout was Amazon's six-wheeled, cooler-sized autonomous sidewalk delivery robot, and the canonical sidewalk-delivery wind-down datapoint in DEPLOY's cohort. 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. 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.
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Verified-vs-claimed: Amazon Scout is discontinued; listings that still show it as an active sidewalk-delivery service are outdated. Cap-flag the figures: the ~400 headcount is Amazon's total-program number (the reassignment-vs-exit split is not disclosed), and the city-level specifics are partly inherited from launch coverage.
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There is no consumer price, and the program is discontinued. Scout was a captive Amazon delivery field-test, not a robot sold to consumers, so DEPLOY records zero price points.
Wound-down vs survivors: Scout vs Starship vs Serve
Amazon Scout
Starship
Serve Robotics
State
Discontinued (2022)
🟢verified
Commercial (at scale)
🟢verified
Commercial
🟢verified
Backer
Amazon (wound down)
🟢verified
Starship Technologies
🟢verified
Serve (NASDAQ: SERV)
🟢verified
Peak
4 US field-test markets
🟢verified
Millions of deliveries
🟢verified
Multi-city (Uber Eats)
🟢verified
Pricing
No consumer price
⊘absence
No consumer price
⊘absence
No consumer price
⊘absence
Sources: DEPLOY registry, Bloomberg / TechCrunch, The Robot Report
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I get an Amazon Scout delivery?
No⊘absence. The Amazon Scout program is discontinued: Amazon wound it down on October 6, 2022, ending the customer-facing field tests. It was never a robot sold to consumers.
Why did Amazon Scout shut down?
Amazon wound down the program on October 6, 2022🟢verified (first reported by Bloomberg), ending the customer-facing field tests and disbanding the dedicated field-test team while reassigning employees, after field tests across four US markets.
Is Amazon Scout still operating?
No🟢verified. It is discontinued; listings that still show Scout as an active sidewalk-delivery service are outdated. Survivors such as Starship, Serve, and Coco continued.
Pricing and availability are tagged verified or claimed against primary sources. Manufacturer targets are reported as targets, not prices you can pay today.