Podcast: Amazon puts AI in delivery vans; Ex-AMZN exec Dave Clark’s new startup; AI vs. cancer

This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Artificial intelligence and automation are transforming the way companies get stuff to stores and doorsteps, changing the world of logistics, transportation, and the supply chain, as demonstrated by a few Amazon-related stories we covered this week: 

• Amazon’s unveiling of a new “Vision-Assisted Package Retrieval (VAPR) system for the cargo hold of its electric Rivian vans;
• The announcement of Amazon’s next-generation fulfillment center, with updated and expanded versions of its robotics systems in Shreveport, La.
• Former Amazon executive Dave Clark’s launch of a new supply chain technology startup, based in the Seattle area, with $100 million in funding out of the gate. 

Those are our topics in our first two segments of the show this week. In the third segment, we hear more about the new Cancer AI Alliance spearheaded by Seattle’s Fred Hutch Cancer Center, in partnership with other national cancer research organizations and major tech companies including Amazon, Microsoft and Nvidia. 

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