Amazon launches new R&D group targeted on agentic AI and robotics

Tech big Amazon plans to launch a brand new group inside its shopper product division that may deal with agentic AI.

Amazon introduced this new analysis and growth group at an occasion on Wednesday, in keeping with reporting from CNBC. This group shall be based mostly out of Lab126, Amazon’s {hardware} R&D division that’s behind tech together with the Amazon Echo and the Kindle. 

The explanation this agentic AI group is probably going based mostly at a {hardware} R&D middle is that Amazon hopes this group will develop an agentic AI framework to make use of within the firm’s robotics efforts and to provide the corporate’s warehouse robots extra abilities. 

TechCrunch reached out to Amazon for extra data.