Amazon launches a new AI foundation model to power its robotic fleet and deploys its 1 millionth robot

They changed from a deterministic model to a statistical one just for a (supposed)10% bump in “travel time”? I’d love to see what kind of data they’re using to evaluate this change; shame the article is just a bunch of empty PR.

Imagine if we were doing something good with this tech instead of annihilating jobs in proprietary treat delivery