Amazon announced Friday evening that it has hired Covariant's founders — Pieter Abbeel, Peter Chen, and Rocky Duan — along with "about a quarter" of the startup's employees. It's also signed a ...

Covariant CEO Peter Chen is one of three co-founders who will be joining Amazon. (Covariant Photo) Amazon is hiring three of the founders from Covariant, a Bay Area startup that develops AI for ...

Covariant this week announced the launch of RFM-1 (Robotics Foundation Model 1). Peter Chen, the co-founder and CEO of the UC Berkeley artificial intelligence spinout tells TechCrunch the platform, ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Covariant today announced the close of a $40 million series B funding ...

Covariant was founded in 2017 with a simple goal: helping robots learn how to better pick up objects. It’s a large need among those looking to automate warehouses, and one that is much more complex ...

New financing brings total raised to $222 million; existing investor participation highlights confidence in Covariant’s roadmap to fix today’s broken supply chain The funding will be used to ensure ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. A startup founded by former OpenAI researchers is developing software that can help make robots more ...

The ecommerce giant has acquired a team to give robots greater intelligence and dexterity—potentially automating much more of its warehouse operations. Last week, the ecommerce giant announced another ...

Covariant, a startup developing warehouse robots that can be deployed faster than traditional automation hardware, has raised $75 million in funding. The company disclosed the investment today. The ...