Jeff Wilke, Amazon’s global head of consumer, unveiled his latest delivery drone at the re:MARS conference in Las Vegas on June 5, 2019.
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Amazon There are no plans to hold a re:MARS conference on advanced technologies like robotics and space this year, the company confirmed on Friday. It will incorporate topics into the existing Amazon Web Services event stream.
tech giants show re:MARS, which stands for “Machine learning, Automation, Robotics, and Space,” in 2019 as a way for startups, academics, researchers, and executives to discuss new developments of these technologies. It turned into a private, invite-only version of the event, called Mars, that appealed to the tech elite and was hosted by Amazon founder and executive chairman Jeff Bezos.
Amazon said the decision to cancel re:MARS was not made for budgetary reasons.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has been scrutinizing costs across the company as the company faces slowing sales growth and a bleak economic outlook. The company has experienced biggest layoffs in its history and Jassy has cut a number of initiatives, including Amazon Care telehealth programtourism “treasure car” Glow . children’s video conferencing equipment And Explore the virtual tour service.
Amazon used re:MARS to highlight some of its futuristic innovations, such as its first delivery drone, warehouse robot, and home robot. Bezos also holds talks about space colonization, and testing a pair of remote-controlled giant robotic arms. At last year’s conference, Amazon prove a feature in which its digital assistant Alexa impersonates a deceased loved one.
An Amazon Web Services spokesperson told CNBC in a statement: “AWS hosts hundreds of thousands of customers and partners each year at hundreds of events around the world. These events provide invaluable opportunities to connect with our customers. Their time is precious and we take it seriously our responsibility to make each event valuable to each attendee, whether it is through developing new skills, identifying new solutions that will change an organization or building new connections can advance your career.We always consult with our customers and the community, and for 2023, decided to combine the re:MARS topics — machine learning, automation, robotics, and space — into a pool of well-funded existing AWS events.”
