Large language models and other foundation models have introduced a new paradigm in AI: large models trained in a self-supervised fashion — no data annotation required...
Recent developments in AI chips, particularly those used in autonomous robotics, are poised to reshape the strategic landscape of global technology investment. With Nvidia’s cutting-edge chipsets...
This week, at Amazon’s Delivering the Future symposium in Dortmund, Germany, Amazon announced that its Vulcan robots, which stow items into and pick items from fabric...
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) such as the Zoox purpose-built robotaxi represent a new era in human mobility, but the deployment of AVs comes with many challenges. It’s...
Remote-object grounding is the task of automatically determining where in the local environment to find an object specified in natural language. It is an essential capability...
[Editor’s note: The International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) is taking place this week in Kyoto, Japan. IROS focuses on future directions in robotics, and the...
Every day at Amazon fulfillment centers, more than half a million robots assist with stocking inventory, filling orders, and sorting packages for delivery. These robots follow...
We humans often lament that we cannot predict the future, but perhaps we don’t give ourselves quite enough credit. With sufficient practice, our short-term predictive skills...
Amazon and MIT today named the four awardees from the inaugural call for research projects as part of the Science Hub. The Science Hub — which...
Every day, Amazon ships millions of parcels. Single orders often include multiple products, and while Amazon employs hundreds of thousands of people at its fulfillment centers...