This summer, Amazon sought to answer a key question about its cashierless Go convenience stores: How small could it go?

Employees at Amazon were seeking to determine the smallest possible size and design for a Go store in order to hit its target of $2 million in annual sales from each store, according to an internal analysis prepared in June and viewed by The Information. To solve the puzzle, ...

Shortly after Amazon opened its first Amazon Go mini-mart to the public in Seattle last year, the company privately mapped out its ambitions for building more of the high-tech, cashierless stores.   

It projected that annual revenue from all Amazon Go stores would balloon from a mere $28 million in 2018 to as much as $639 million in 2020, according to internal Amazon documents ...

Building robots has long been a romantic pursuit for Travis Deyle. As a kid in rural Nebraska, he assembled small robots from windshield wiper motors in a shop on his grandfather’s farm. As a postdoctoral student, he developed healthcare robots that would fetch medication for elderly people. Meanwhile, he published a popular blog on the robotics industry and built up a large library of ...

Bill Stasior, the longtime former Apple executive overseeing its Siri digital assistant, has joined Microsoft, continuing a reshuffling of artificial intelligence leadership at big tech companies. 

Starting this month, Stasior, whose move to Microsoft hasn’t been previously reported, will become a corporate vice president of technology, reporting to Chief Technology Officer Kevin ...