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‘We’re in this for good’: Amazon plans more home robots despite early skepticism about Astro

Amazon unveiled Astro, its first home robot, in September, after developing the rolling Alexa device in secret for several years.… Read More

More AI for devs: Amazon unveils CodeWhisperer machine-learning ‘coding companion’

LAS VEGAS — Amazon Web Services showed a new service that uses machine learning to generate code suggestions for software… Read More

Amazon previews Alexa capability that synthesizes a person’s voice from less than a minute of audio

LAS VEGAS — A short video of a child asking Alexa to have his grandma read the Wizard of Oz… Read More

With new warehouse robots, Amazon looks to invent its way out of its safety problems

LAS VEGAS — Amazon unveiled a new fleet of robots and automated systems, including the first fully autonomous robot that… Read More

Amazon opens registration for re:MARS 2020, starring Jeff Bezos and Hollywood’s Jon Favreau

How do you follow up on Iron Man? The answer for Amazon’s second annual re:MARS conference is to bring the… Read More

Satellite consultant outlines a way-out plan to turn space junk into lunar treasure

What can be done with the thousands of dead satellites orbiting Earth? Some commercial ventures are hatching plans to get… Read More

Lockheed Martin studies how to use a cloud of satellites for space missions

More and more computing is being done in the cloud, but so far, the cloud-based approach hasn’t been applied in… Read More

How AWS Ground Station is taking its giant leap for satellite links in small steps

LAS VEGAS – Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says his company has gotten so big that it has to branch out… Read More

Jeff Bezos explains Amazon’s bet on Project Kuiper satellites — and copes with an onstage protest

LAS VEGAS — For the first time in public, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos explained the rationale for his risky Project… Read More

Alexa gets smarter about combining AI skills, starting with dinner and a movie

LAS VEGAS — Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant will soon get savvier about juggling its thousands of skills — starting with… Read More

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos gets a laugh out of his round with a robotic arm at re:MARS conference

LAS VEGAS — Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ handshake is at least as firm as a robotic hand’s grip. I found… Read More

Amazon Robotics unveils two new breeds of robots for its fulfillment centers

LAS VEGAS — Amazon says there are now 200,000 robots working alongside 300,000 people at its distribution facilities around the… Read More

Amazon shows off new all-electric Prime Air drone that will start delivering packages ‘within months’

LAS VEGAS — Amazon’s drone ambitions took another step forward today as the tech giant revealed its latest delivery drone… Read More

Racer, rocketeer … and tour guide? Jimmy Shane shows off Blue Origin’s crew capsule at re:MARS

LAS VEGAS — One of the big attractions at this week’s Amazon re:MARS conference is a mockup of the crew… Read More

At Amazon’s re:MARS fest, Iron Man actor Robert Downey Jr. unveils campaign to clean up the planet

LAS VEGAS — Robert Downey Jr. has been saving the planet in Marvel movies for 11 years as a cinematic… Read More

Lockheed Martin joins the discussion about cloud computing services in space

Is the final frontier the next frontier for cloud computing? One of the presentations planned for Amazon’s re:MARS conference in… Read More

Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin New Shepard crew capsule

Party like it’s $1,999: Jeff Bezos and Robert Downey Jr. will headline re:MARS fest in Vegas

Amazon didn’t have to look very far for one of the biggest headliners due to appear at re:MARS, the Seattle-based… Read More

Amazon launches re:MARS event focusing on AI, as second stage to invite-only MARS

Amazon’s annual invitation-only event on machine learning, automation, robotics and space — known as Mars — has become a high-tech highlight for… Read More