Routing is one of the most studied problems in computer science. The traveling-salesman problem, or determining the most efficient route for a salesman who ...
Finding the optimal route between multiple destinations — the traveling salesman problem — is a challenge regularly faced by Amazon’s Last Mile team. ...
For delivery drivers, finding the doorstep where a package should be dropped off can be surprisingly hard. House numbers can be obscured by foliage, or they ...
When Amazon announced it would purchase 100,000 custom electric delivery vehicles as part of The Climate Pledge, a team of scientists within the Amazon ...
Amazon and MIT today named the four awardees from the inaugural call for research projects as part of the Science Hub.The Science Hub — which was launched ...
In 2018, Rohit Malshe, an Amazon principal scientist, looked across the street from his home in Portland, Oregon, and spotted two trucks delivering Amazon ...
Before Amazon built its own delivery network, Amazon package deliveries were completed by partner third-party carriers, like the U.S. Postal Service or UPS. ...
On a recent ride-along with an Amazon delivery driver in New York City, Mahdieh Allahviranloo got a firsthand look at the gap between algorithm logic and ...
In 2020, Amazon’s retail fulfillment network in the U.S. expanded at a rapid clip. What followed was a dramatic — and swift — operational pivot.This is the ...