Human speech conveys the speaker’s sentiment and emotion through both the words that are spoken and the manner in which they are spoken. In speech-based ...

In Rustan Leino’s ideal world, computer software always works as intended. In the real world, though, he knows that software engineers are people like him — ...

Five university teams have been selected to participate in the final live interactions phase of the Alexa Prize SimBot Challenge. The teams were selected ...

In an effort to improve the performance of robots that pick, sort, and pack products in warehouses, Amazon has publicly released the largest dataset of ...

Amazon and the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) have announced the launch of the UT Austin-Amazon Science Hub, continuing Amazon’s commitment to ...

“Alexa, where’s the nearest coffee shop?”In vehicles with Alexa, drivers can pose questions like that — while keeping their eyes on the road and hands on ...

The prices of products in the Amazon Store reflect a range of factors, such as demand, seasonality, and general economic trends. Pricing policies typically ...

Amazon Research Awards (ARA) provides unrestricted funds and AWS Promotional Credits to academic researchers investigating various research topics in ...

Rohit Prasad wins TiE Boston Achievement in Corporate Excellence AwardRohit Prasad, Alexa senior vice president and head scientist, has won the TiE Boston ...

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is the core technology of autonomous mobile robots. It involves simultaneously building a map of the robot’s ...