In pursuit of ratcheting up its service speeds, Seattle-based Amazon has been a leader in the trend to automate fulfillment operations ever since it acquired the technology firm Kiva Systems LLC for $775 million in 2012, rebranded it as Amazon Robotics, and ceased selling its squat, orange units to competing DCs.Those Kiva robots raised the industry's bar for goods-to-person automation by cruising through fulfillment centers, maneuvering underneath racks of inventory, and carrying those loaded shelves to warehouses laborers who would pick and pack individual items for shipping to consumers' homes. The launch comes as Amazon is investing heavily in its distribution network to support its April offer to upgrade the nationwide delivery terms of its Amazon Prime subscription service from two-day to next-day shipping. Those robots are concentrated at the 50 robotic fulfillment centers Amazon operates among its global footprint of 175 fulfillment centers and more than 40 sort centers, the company said.

The company has already deployed 800 of the Pegasus units to its facilities, a small portion of the 200,000 robotic drive units it operates globally, but one it intends to rapidly increase. on Wednesday announced it had developed two sleek new warehouse robot models called Xanthus and Pegasus, saying the designs are intended to improve safety and efficiency for its sprawling buildings and enormous workforce.

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