At a virtual event today, Amazon’s senior vice president for devices, Dave Limp, unveiled his organization’s new lineup of devices, which included Astro, a ...

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is one of the core capabilities of autonomous robots, with a rich literature behind it. “Mapping” means ...

The Clarity Challenge is a five-year project with the goal of finding new ways to process sound inside hearing aids. Each year, scientists from around the ...

For every order placed on the Amazon Store, mathematical models developed by Amazon’s Supply Chain Optimization Technologies organization (SCOT) work behind ...

Amazon and MIT today announced the establishment of the Science Hub, a collaboration that will focus on areas of mutual interest, beginning with artificial ...

Through smart-home devices and systems, customers can already instruct Alexa to do things like open garage doors, turn lights on and off, or start the ...

Amazon today announced it is launching a new Alexa Prize SimBot Challenge, a competition focused on helping advance development of next-generation virtual ...

Clouds are famously hard to pin down. This is problematic in a world in which climate science is key to our future existence, and it is high time clouds ...

Amazon was founded in 1994 and six years later the company hired its first research scientist, Russell Allgor. Over the past 21 years, Allgor has seen the ...

On October 6, Siddhartha (Sidd) Srinivasa joined Nia Jetter, Amazon Robotics AI senior principal technologist, to discuss the field of robotics, Amazon ...

Notebook computers, tablets, and smartphones get the tech headlines, but these are largely mature products at this point. Smaller, more personal devices are ...

When Cristiana Lara was growing up in Rio de Janeiro, she became obsessed with challenging math problems, working on them feverishly until she could solve ...