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The Indian workers training AI robots to take their jobsWith a smartphone strapped to her head, Nagireddy Sriramyachandra films herself slicing mangoes in her kitchen in India to train AI-powered...
Amazon vs Walmart: Great American race begins for $1 trillion annual sales. How will this benefit customers in rural U.S?Amazon last year invested $4 billion to bring same-day or next-day deliveries to 4,000 smaller cities, towns and rural communities.
Walmart and Amazon race to win over rural America with speedier deliveriesWalmart and Amazon are aggressively expanding online delivery services into rural America, a market previously overlooked due to logistical...
Amazon aims to revolutionize fast delivery with new 30-minute systemAmazon is revealing a new service offering deliveries in 30 minutes or less for an additional charge. This ultrafast delivery, called Amazo...
Mother's Day Special: How AI, apps are empowering women to manage finances, improve health, build careerWomen are learning to keep pace with the ubiquitous apps and AI, shrugging off dependence on their kids for financial transactions, online ...
Inside AI-led digital storefronts; Lalit Keshre’s big ET Awards winHappy Monday! Digital platforms and brands are building their own AI storefronts. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.
Amazon buys Fauna Robotics, maker of the Sprout humanoid robotThe e-commerce giant is already a robotics powerhouse, having boasted of deploying more than 1 million robots across its warehouse operatio...
Amazon to wind down its Astro for Business security robotAmazon discontinues Astro for Business, offers $300 credit for replacements. Customers refunded for pre-paid fees as robot stops on Sept. 2...
Amazon, iRobot abandon merger in face of EU oppositionAmazon and iRobot have announced the termination of their merger plans due to opposition from EU antitrust regulators. iRobot is implementi...
Amazon calls off bid to buy iRobot amid pushback in EuropeAmazon announced in 2022 that it would buy iRobot, maker of the circular-shaped Roomba vacuum, for $1.7 billion in cash. But the value of t...
EU regulators say Amazon's iRobot acquisition may harm competitionThe European Commission, the European Union's executive arm and top antitrust enforcer, said it has informed Amazon of its "preliminary vie...
Amazon amends iRobot deal to lower offer price by 15%The companies had unveiled the deal in August last year, in what marked the latest effort by the world's largest online retailer to expand ...
UK regulator launches probe into Amazon's planned purchase of iRobotThe probe launch by the UK watchdog comes at a time antitrust regulators, including those in the U.S. and the European Union, have become i...
Amazon's $1.7B iRobot purchase faces UK antitrust scrutinyAmazon said it's "working cooperatively with the relevant regulators in their review of the merger."
US begins antitrust review of Amazon's takeover of vacuum maker iRobotThe US anti-trust body's iRobot review is wide-ranging and would include both head-to-head competition and whether the deal would illegally...
Alexa! Start my Roomba: Amazon buys robot vacuum maker iRobot for $1.7 billionAmazon will pay $61 per share, valuing iRobot at a premium of 22% to the stock's last closing price of $49.99.
Amazon to develop software for its consumer robots in IndiaThe India centre will help support Amazon's international Robotics division, which launched its first robot Astro last year.
Amazon launches robot to roll around house, Disney resort voice assistantThe home robot is designed to take up tasks such as home monitoring, setting up routines and reminders, and can play music and TV shows whi...
An upgraded Echo, Alexa robot: Amazon ramping up things to make life easierAmazon is also planning a high-fidelity version of its music service.
Big tech is throwing money and talent at home robotsAlphabet and Huawei join Amazon in the race to build androids, the first of which could debut by 2020.