Amazon Scout was a short-lived consumer shopping-discovery product launched by Amazon in September 2018, surfacing product recommendations through a swipe-through visual interface organized around lifestyle and aesthetic categories rather than the search-and-keyword model that dominates the main Amazon site. The product was quietly retired in 2020 after limited user traction.
Amazon used the "Scout" brand name for an unrelated product in roughly the same period: the Amazon Scout autonomous delivery robot, a six-wheeled sidewalk vehicle Amazon began field-testing in Snohomish County, Washington in 2019 and expanded to several additional markets before winding down the public-road program and disbanding the field-test team in 2022. The two Amazon Scout products share no technology, team, or roadmap; the name reuse reflects Amazon's internal brand-recycling practice rather than a unified Scout strategy.