{"id":203673,"date":"2025-01-13T17:31:24","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T23:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/ai-powered-robots-jeff-bezos-bold-new-venture"},"modified":"2025-01-13T17:31:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T23:31:24","slug":"ai-powered-robots-jeff-bezos-bold-new-venture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/ai-powered-robots-jeff-bezos-bold-new-venture","title":{"rendered":"AI-powered robots: Jeff Bezos\u2019 bold new venture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-powered-robots-jeff-bezos-bold-new-venture3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of Amazon, has always been a visionary investor, known for his early stakes in companies like Airbnb and Uber. In 2024, Bezos has turned his attention to a new frontier: AI-powered robotics. This bold move signifies a major shift as Bezos bets on the next wave of technological innovation, aiming to revolutionize industries and everyday life.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In April of last year, Marko Bjelonic, co-founder and CEO of Swiss-Mile, a Zurich-based robotics company, reached out to Bezos with a detailed proposal\u2014an <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/glassalmanac.com\/google-apple-amazon-the-10-most-used-internet-services-in-2024\/\">Amazon<\/a><\/strong>-style \u201c6-Pager\u201d\u2014to pitch his company\u2019s vision. Bjelonic recalls, \u201cI was pleasantly surprised by Jeff\u2019s patience and relaxed demeanor.\u201d What was initially a planned 30-minute call extended to an hour, feeling more like a conversation than a formal interview.<\/p>\n<p>This meeting led Bezos to co-lead a <strong>$22 million funding round<\/strong> for Swiss-Mile in August. Swiss-Mile is developing AI-driven robots that resemble headless dogs with wheels instead of feet, designed to deliver packages autonomously. These robots are currently undergoing trials on Zurich\u2019s streets, marking a significant step towards commercial deployment. According to Bjelonic, \u201cOur goal is to see these robots reliably deliver packages from point A to point B, enhancing efficiency and reducing human labor.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of Amazon, has always been a visionary investor, known for his early stakes in companies like Airbnb and Uber. In 2024, Bezos has turned his attention to a new frontier: AI-powered robotics. This bold move signifies a major shift as Bezos bets on the next wave of technological innovation, aiming [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}