Boston Dynamics appoints former Amazon executive Rohit Prasad, who spent 12 years helping build and expand Alexa, as its CEO (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
Boston Dynamics appointed former Amazon.com Inc. executive Rohit Prasad as chief executive officer to lead the Hyundai Motor Co.-controlled company into its next era …
Boston Dynamics has appointed Rohit Prasad as its CEO. Prasad is a former Amazon executive who spent 12 years helping build and expand Alexa. He will lead the company, which is controlled by Hyundai Motor Co., into its next era.
The appointment was reported by Bloomberg. There is no additional information available on Prasad's plans for Boston Dynamics.
The other reports mention changes to Amazon's Echo smart speaker, specifically the disabling of Alexa control of devices plugged into the AUX port. However, this information is unrelated to the appointment of Rohit Prasad as CEO of Boston Dynamics.
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