Amazon has announced its “first fully autonomous mobile robot” designed to haul large trucks through warehouses. The robot is called Proteus, and Amazon claims that the company can safely move along with its employees.

Amazon claims Proteus’ robots are equipped with “advanced safety, sensing and navigation” technologies, and the video shows the robots glowing green in front of them as they move. If a person falls under the beam, the robot stops and continues the movement when the person walks.

The company also announced several other robotic systems. One of them, Cardinal, is a robotic arm that can lift and move loads up to 23 kg. Amazon hopes to introduce it in warehouses next year. The company claims its computer vision system allows the job to select and remove individual payloads, even when they’re in bulk.

The company denies that it systematically avoids human workers. But as they say, “time will tell”. Perhaps in the near future all their repositories will become automated.