Amazon officially launched Rufus in February 2025, and the AI chatbot now sits on Amazon’s shopping website and in its app. There are two main ways that shoppers can interact with Rufus. The first is ...

Take the Amazon Astro, a two-wheeled Alexa-powered robot that was rolled out—literally—during Amazon’s fall 2021 hardware ...

Amazon’s Rufus chatbot, Alexa voice deals, and Amazon Lens can change how you shop on Prime Day. Here’s how to use them ...

Amazon (AMZN) is bringing generative AI to its shopping app via its new Rufus chatbot. I’ve used a good deal of generative AI apps so far, and they’ve largely focused on searching the web, helping ...

Everyone is using arms race analogies to describe the rapidly unfolding competition for hegemony in the emerging technology of generative AI. While, at least for the near term, we're yet to see the AI ...

One of Amazon’s most audacious Alexa devices—a wheeled robot that acts as a mechanical guard dog for small- and medium-sized businesses—is heading for the recycle bin. Astro for Business, the ...

On Day 2 of its 2022 artificial intelligence conference, sandwiched in between the reveal of an Alexa-powered home robot called Astro and a presentation from the director of the MIT Space Exploration ...

Automation is a large part of Amazon’s success. At the gigantic retailer’s also gigantic distribution centers, robots trundle around ferrying goods from one place to another, the same goods that you ...

Amazon is expanding its autonomous delivery bot, Scout, to Atlanta and Franklin, Tennessee, in an effort to keep up with demand during the coronavirus pandemic. "We're thrilled to bring Amazon Scout ...

Amazon has agreed to a massive $2.5 billion settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over charges that it knowingly ...