New machine learning services boost AWS RoboMaker innovation

Whether robots are improving the efficiency of industries, helping with medical surgeries or enabling Earth and space exploration, these devices are increasingly attracting the attention of enterprises and their software developers. For companies interested in further developing these devices, Amazon Web Services Inc. is boosting its RoboMaker -- its cloud solution for robotic developers -- with new industrial machine learning services, announced this week during the virtual AWS re:Invent event. "We continue to see the story of how processing is moving to the edge and cloud services are augmenting that processing at the edge with unique and new services," said Roger Barga (pictured), general manager of AWS robotics and autonomous services at AWS. "Andy [Jassy, chief executive of AWS] talked about five new industrial machine learning services yesterday, which are very relevant to exactly what we're trying to do with AWS RoboMaker." They discussed how new ML services improve the AWS RoboMaker, the importance of testing in simulation to enable dynamic robots, and some interesting use cases.