 "People walk by the Amazon Go brick-and-mortar grocery store without lines or checkout counters, in Seattle Washington, US last year. Photo: Reuters")
Last Sunday in Palm Springs, California, Jeffrey P Bezos, the chief executive of Amazon, climbed into the cockpit of a 13-foot robot and began flailing his arms as though warming up for a workout, causing the robot’s enormous appendages to mimic his movements.
“Why do I feel so much like Sigourney Weaver?” Bezos said, referring to the actress who wore a mechanical suit in a climactic battle in the 1986 movie “Aliens.”
The intimate audience of entrepreneurs and academics, attending an Amazon conference on robotics and artificial intelligence, chuckled. Later, Bezos posted a photo on Twitter of himself in the
