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

Amazon says its new “Proteus” cell robotic can function safely alongside human employees. LAS VEGAS — Amazon unveiled a new fleet of robots and automatic techniques, together…

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

Rohit Prasad, Alexa AI senior vice president and head scientist, discusses the voice synthesis technology at Amazon re:MARS LAS VEGAS — A short video of a child…

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

Swami Sivasubramanian, AWS VP, announces the new CodeWhisperer service at re:MARS in Las Vegas. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) LAS VEGAS — Amazon Web Services showed a…

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

Ken Washington, Amazon’s VP of consumer robotics, with Astro. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon unveiled Astro, its first home robot, in September, after developing the rolling…