Amazon will not host re:MARS robotics and AI conference this year

Amazon doesn't program to big its re:MARS league connected cutting-edge technologies similar robotics and abstraction this year, the institution confirmed connected Friday. It volition incorporated the subjects into its existing lineup of Amazon Web Services events.

The tech elephantine launched re:MARS, which stands for "Machine learning, Automation, Robotics, and Space," successful 2019 arsenic a mode for startups, academics, researchers and executives to sermon the latest developments successful these technologies. It morphed retired of a private, invite-only mentation of the event, called Mars, that attracted tech elite and was hosted by Amazon laminitis and enforcement president Jeff Bezos.

The determination to cancel re:MARS was not made for budgetary reasons, Amazon said.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has been taking a hard look astatine costs crossed the institution arsenic it confronts slowing income maturation and a gloomy economical outlook. The institution has undergone the largest layoffs successful its past and Jassy has chopped a fig of initiatives, including the Amazon Care telehealth program, touring "treasure truck," Glow children's videoconferencing device and Explore virtual tours service.

Amazon utilized re:MARS to spotlight immoderate of its futuristic innovations, specified arsenic transportation drones, warehouse robots, and its archetypal location robot. Bezos besides held talks connected abstraction colonization, and tested retired a brace of elephantine remote-controlled robotic hands. At past year's conference, Amazon demonstrated a diagnostic wherever its Alexa integer adjunct impersonated a deceased relative.

An Amazon Web Services spokesperson told CNBC successful a statement: "AWS hosts hundreds of thousands of customers and partners each twelvemonth astatine hundreds of events astir the world. These events supply an invaluable accidental to link with our customers. Their clip is precious and we instrumentality earnestly the work to marque each lawsuit invaluable for each attendee, whether that's done processing caller skills, identifying caller solutions that volition alteration an organization, oregon gathering caller connections that tin beforehand a career. We consulted with customers and the assemblage arsenic always, and for 2023, decided to incorporated re:MARS topics — instrumentality learning, automation, robotics, and abstraction — into a well-funded lineup of existing AWS events."