How Amazon is trying to make the world fall in love with its robots
5 months, 2 weeks ago

How Amazon is trying to make the world fall in love with its robots

The Independent  

Amazon’s first fully autonomous robot, Proteus, has a lot of responsibilities. In a blog post published last week, in which Amazon voices the Proteus robot, it said that the “first autonomous mobile robot” title is a “fancy way of saying, I’ve got the smarts and technology that allow me to work independently and safely around people. “This means that I can navigate freely within my work area in our fulfillment centers and detect and avoid objects around me, allowing me to safely work outside the fenced areas where many of my robotic co-workers must stay.” Proteus and its wider deployment marks a major breakthrough for Amazon, which is already the largest manufacturer of industrial robotics. That is part of the mission to “make Proteus lovable”, according to Julie Mitchell, a director at Amazon Robotics, who helped bring the machine to life. “The faces, the eyes that we put on it, the noises that it makes – it all purposely designed to make it lovable.” Amazon’s robotics work has generated an awful lot of feelings in recent years, though love wouldn’t be high on the list.

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Amazon develops video AI model: Report
4 months ago

Amazon develops video AI model: Report

The Hindu  

E-commerce giant Amazon has developed new generative artificial intelligence that can process images and videos in addition to text, making it less reliant on AI startup Anthropic, The Information reported on Wednesday. The development of the new AI model will help Amazon reduce its reliance on Anthropic's Claude chatbot, a popular offering on Amazon Web Services, the report said, citing …

Amazon.com mulls new multi-billion dollar investment in Anthropic: Report
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Amazon.com mulls new multi-billion dollar investment in Anthropic: Report

The Hindu  

Amazon is in talks for its second multi-billion dollar investment in artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, the Information reported on Thursday, citing a person familiar with the matter. The cloud services giant announced an investment of $4 billion in the OpenAI rival in September last year, saying its customers would gain early access to Anthropic's technology. Amazon has asked Anthropic, which …

Amazon launches new warehouses with 10 times the robots
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Amazon launches new warehouses with 10 times the robots

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The company has been gradually increasing the amount and complexity of the robotic systems involved in sending …

Amazon is working on an AI chatbot to rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT: Report
9 months ago

Amazon is working on an AI chatbot to rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT: Report

The Hindu  

Amazon is building an AI chatbot to rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a report by Business Insider has revealed. According to sources and an internal document obtained by the outlet, the project is code-named ‘Metis,’ a possible reference to the Greek Goddess of wisdom, and intends to work as a web browser. The chatbot will be based on Amazon’s most powerful version …

Amazon axing workforce may not stop with corporate function
2 years, 4 months ago

Amazon axing workforce may not stop with corporate function

The Hindu  

Amazon axing talent may not be limited to its corporate functions. But, unlike Twitter, which let go of its employees in an unceremonious way, the global retailer plans to carefully reduce workforce based on individual departmental needs. If the U.S.-based company’s layoff affects it corporate employees, one of its business decisions could have an impact on its labourers at the …

Amazon’s ‘Safe’ New Robot Won’t Fix Its Worker Injury Problem
2 years, 8 months ago

Amazon’s ‘Safe’ New Robot Won’t Fix Its Worker Injury Problem

Wired  

Since Amazon began bringing robots to its warehouses in 2014, company executives have repeatedly claimed that they improve worker safety. Amazon didn’t mention that track record late last month when it announced a machine called Proteus, which company officials call their first fully mobile and collaborative robot. We have a lot of focus on that, and it’s on us to …

Amazon introduces fully autonomous robot to work alongside humans
2 years, 9 months ago

Amazon introduces fully autonomous robot to work alongside humans

The Hindu  

E-commerce giant Amazon has revealed a new robot, called Proteus, that can operate alongside humans. A short, unlisted YouTube video showed Proteus carrying out its work, and stopping before a human in its path. Proteus is slated to join the outbound ‘GoCart handling areas’ of Amazon fulfillment and sorting centers. “Our vision is to automate GoCart handling throughout the network, …

Meet Proteus: Amazon unveils autonomous robot designed to move large carts around its warehouses
2 years, 9 months ago

Meet Proteus: Amazon unveils autonomous robot designed to move large carts around its warehouses

Daily Mail  

For the last decade, Amazon has been building an army of robot employees to sort packages and move products safely around its warehouses. Like Amazon's current warehouse robots, Proteus is designed to move large trolleys full of packages around the warehouse floor. Proteus is designed to work alongside humans, moving large trolleys full of packages around the warehouse floor In …

Amazon Proteus Is The First Fully-Automatic Robot From The Company: All Details
2 years, 9 months ago

Amazon Proteus Is The First Fully-Automatic Robot From The Company: All Details

News 18  

Amazon’s primary business is e-commerce but the company has become equally serious on the hardware side with futuristic robots in play. And now Amazon has unveiled its first-ever fully-autonomous robot called Proteus which relies on Amazon’s technology to navigate around its warehouse with precision and safety. The Proteus robot will be utilised by Amazon at the outbound GoCart handling areas …

Amazon’s Astro Is a Robot Without a Cause
55 years, 3 months ago

Amazon’s Astro Is a Robot Without a Cause

Wired  

What do you get when you mix Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant with an Echo Show tablet, give it a hefty dose of artificial intelligence, integrate it all with Ring’s home security system, and let it roll around your home autonomously? Actually, you get Astro, Amazon’s long-rumored home robot. Amazon’s hardware chief Dave Limp identified a few potential use cases in …

Amazon wants to ship you anything in 30 minutes. It’s going to need a lot of robots
5 years, 4 months ago

Amazon wants to ship you anything in 30 minutes. It’s going to need a lot of robots

CNN  

Washington, DC CNN Business — Amazon is burning through billions to get you stuff faster. That’s only possible because of robotics.” Jeff Wilke, Amazon CEO of Worldwide Consumer To continue to speed up delivery times and stay ahead of competitors, Amazon will need even more robots. “There’s no way that works,” recalled Nick Swinmurn, founder of Amazon subsidiary Zappos, of …

Amazon to hire 2,000 techies in UK for new ventures
5 years, 8 months ago

Amazon to hire 2,000 techies in UK for new ventures

Live Mint  

Amazon.com Inc. is set to hire more than 2,000 workers in the U.K., including engineers, software developers and data scientists, to develop its latest technology ventures. The Seattle-based tech giant’s U.K. workforce will total almost 30,000 people by the end of the year, and will include cloud and machine learning experts, corporate roles and fulfillment and delivery workers, the company …

Grasping Robots Compete to Rule Amazon’s Warehouses
7 years, 8 months ago

Grasping Robots Compete to Rule Amazon’s Warehouses

Wired  

Amazon employs 45,000 robots, but they all have something missing: hands. Robots able to help with so-called picking tasks would boost Amazon’s efficiency—and make it much less reliant on human workers. “They’re getting people to work on a problem they think they will need to solve to stay competitive without needing to hire anyone.” One change Amazon has made to …

How Amazon triggered a robot arms race
8 years, 9 months ago

How Amazon triggered a robot arms race

Live Mint  

New York: An Amazon warehouse is a flurry of activity. He decided to use the robots for Amazon and Amazon alone, ending the sale of Kiva’s products to warehouse operators and retailers that had come to rely on them. “Warehouses are very high tech places,” said Bruce Welty, co-founder and chairman of Locus Robotics, a firm that’s developed bots to …

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