Source: The Verge
Summary
Amazon has canceled its Blue Jay robotics project, according to a report. The project was focused on developing a household robot. Amazon said the core tech will be used for other robotics projects and the employees who worked on it were moved to other projects.
Our Reading
The announcement sounds ambitious.
Amazon’s Blue Jay project bites the dust, but the tech will live on in other robotics endeavors. Because rebranding is the new innovation. The employees who worked on Blue Jay are being reassigned, because who needs robotics expertise when you can just pivot? This is what “moonshot” projects look like when they don’t quite take off.
Author: Evan Null
