Siddhartha Srinivasa, director of Amazon Robotics AI, and Nia Jetter, Amazon Robotics AI senior principal technologist, discuss inspiration, their roles at Amazon, and tips for pursuing a robotics career.Read More
Amazon’s first research scientist elected an INFORMS fellow
Russell Allgor is recognized for outstanding lifetime achievement in operations research and the management sciences.Read More
Philip Stier is cracking cloud-based climate conundrums
The Oxford professor says merging AI, ML, and climate science can help us understand the impact of aerosol-cloud interactions on climate.Read More
Amazon launches new Alexa Prize SimBot Challenge
University team application deadline is October 31, 2021.Read More
New dataset for training household robots to follow human commands
Publicly released TEACh dataset contains more than 3,000 dialogues and associated visual data from a simulated environment.Read More
Amazon and MIT establish Science Hub
The collaboration will support research, education, and outreach efforts in areas of mutual interest, beginning with artificial intelligence and robotics.Read More
The evolution of Amazon’s inventory planning system
How Amazon’s scientists developed a first-of-its-kind multi-echelon system for inventory buying and placement.Read More
Five-year Clarity Challenge to help improve hearing aids
Participating teams reported their progress at a workshop earlier this month.Read More
A more useful way to measure robotic localization error
Measuring the displacement between location estimates derived from different camera views can help enforce the local consistency vital to navigation.Read More
Astro’s Intelligent Motion brings state-of-the-art navigation to the home
“Body language” and an awareness of social norms help Amazon’s new household robot integrate gracefully into the home.Read More