Amazon has announced a series of major investments at its Delivering the Future event in London, including a more than €10 billion commitment to expand and modernize European fulfillment centers with next-generation robotics, the expansion of ultra-fast Amazon Now delivery to more international cities, and a $1 billion global investment in employee upskilling through its Career Choice program. The announcements come as Amazon said it invested more than €60 billion across Europe in 2025, the largest annual investment in the company’s history in the region, and that it currently supports more than 1.5 million jobs across Europe.
At the center of the robotics announcements is the next generation of Amazon’s autonomous Proteus robot, which can now operate anywhere items need to be moved across fulfillment sites using AI-powered conversational text prompts from employees, without the need for technical commands or programming interfaces.
Amazon also announced STARK, a new collaborative robotic tote-handling system designed to work alongside employees to pick full totes from conveyors and place them on carts, with plans to expand STARK from its Barcelona pilot to 15 European sites by 2027. The €10 billion investment also includes expansion of Vulcan, Amazon’s first robot with a sense of touch, and will grow the European fulfillment center workforce by 25,000 over the coming years. Proteus deployment in Europe is planned for the first half of 2027.
On delivery, Amazon Now ultra-fast service — offering thousands of groceries and essentials in 30 minutes or less — is expanding to Manchester and Birmingham this year in addition to its existing London presence, while Sub Same-Day Delivery sites are reaching more than 25 European locations in 2026. Amazon’s Add to Delivery feature, which allows Prime members to add items to existing orders without going through checkout again, will roll out across the UK, Germany, Spain, Italy, and France later this year. Amazon has also reached the halfway point on its goal of 100,000 electric delivery vans globally, with more than 50,000 now on the road, and has surpassed 100 million micromobility deliveries across Europe using electric cargo bikes, mopeds, and on-foot methods.
