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- Amazon held a conference dedicated to robots and AI in Las Vegas this month.
- Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was at the event, inspecting the menagerie of droids on display.
- The show provided a valuable look at how advanced robots have become — and some of the shortcomings that still need to be fixed before they become ubiquitous.
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From June 3-7, a couple thousand people landed in Las Vegas to get a peek at how Amazon uses robots and AI tech in its business and to mingle with some of the world’s leading robotics and AI experts.
This was Amazon’s first Machine learning, AI, Robotics, and Space conference, known as re:MARS. The conference was born out of an annual private, invite-only conference hosted by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos every year in Palm Springs.
The private party still takes place and it’s the conference that’s yielded some iconic photos, like Bezos appearing in a giant exoskeleton a few years ago. This year, he famously played beer pong with a robot.
But the public version of the conference, where Bezos also made an appearance, was every bit as eye opening. It also included a smattering of celebrities, keynote talks from experts and lots and lots of robots.
Take a look.
The first realization that you’ve entered the world of Amazon MARS is at the hotel where this hotel robot was wandering around.
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The second sign was the Blue Original capsule in the lobby of the conference area, which was open for tours.
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Blue Origin is a space exploration company founded by Bezos, but separate from Amazon. It has shown off its capsules before, such as the video that showed Mannequin Skywalker’s ride aboard the Crew Capsule 2.0 as the space company gets ready to fly humans.
Amazon Re:MARs included an expo that was, naturally full of robots, too. A lot of universities were showing off their wares and many of them are working on robots that can work in warehouses, moving boxes. Here’s the UNLV robotics research team showing off their warehouse robot.
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Source: Business Insider – jbort@businessinsider.com (Julie Bort)