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Boston Dynamics names former Amazon Alexa executive as CEO

Headline from Quartz

Rohit Prasad, who spent 12 years at Amazon building and expanding Alexa, takes over as the robotics company pushes deeper into industrial AI

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  1. The Boston Globe

    Boston Dynamics taps Prasad as CEO (opens The Boston Globe)

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    Former Amazon Alexa executive takes over at Waltham robot maker.

  2. Bloomberg

    Boston Dynamics Taps Amazon Alexa Executive as New CEO (opens Bloomberg)

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    Boston Dynamics appointed former Amazon.com Inc. executive Rohit Prasad as chief executive officer to lead the Hyundai Motor Co.-controlled company into its next era of innovation and commercialization of its robots.

  3. Quartz

    Boston Dynamics names former Amazon Alexa executive as CEO (opens Quartz)

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    Rohit Prasad, who spent 12 years at Amazon building and expanding Alexa, takes over as the robotics company pushes deeper into industrial AI

  4. Fast Company

    He helped build Alexa. Now Rohit Prasad is taking over Boston Dynamics (opens Fast Company)

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    Rohit Prasad, who led Amazon’s artificial general intelligence division and helped build and scale Alexa, has been tapped as the new CEO of Boston Dynamics. The appointment, announced earlier this week, puts Prasad at the forefront of the increasingly competitive humanoid robotics field.