At Amazon, Porter oversaw teams working on the robots and software that power the company’s warehouses. — AFP
Amazon.com Inc’s top robotics engineer, who recently defended the company’s warehouse working conditions, left to join the artificial intelligence startup Scale AI Inc.
Brad Porter will serve as chief technology officer, Scale announced Aug 31. Scale makes software to help people train autonomous driving technology and other computer vision systems. The business was valued at more than US$1bil last year, when Scale’s then-22-year-old co-founder raised venture capital.
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