Scout, the 6-wheeled delivery bot, has been in testing since 2019, will no longer be further tested or developed. The robot had been deployed for testing in at least four states: California, Washington, Tennessee, Georgia, and Georgia. Amazon says it learned from feedback that Scout was not meeting customers’ needs. About 400 people were employed working on the Scout project worldwide, according to a report from Bloomberg. The end of Scout testing is just the latest cutback in a string of belt-tightening maneuvers for Amazon, that seem to signal financial stress. The retail giant announced a hiring freeze earlier this month, when it also scrapped Glow, discontinuing its clunky video portal for kids, the company also discontinuing Glow. . . .
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