Boston Dynamics taps Alexa creator Rohit Prasad as CEO to drive commercialization
lukas_m_ziegler · x · 2026-10-13
Boston Dynamics named Rohit Prasad as CEO. He spent 12 years at Amazon building Alexa from its earliest days and led development of Amazon Nova foundation models, after nearly 14 years at Raytheon BBN Technologies leading ML research.
- The appointment is explicitly framed around commercialization: turning AI breakthroughs into category-defining products for real-world industrial environments
- The thread also notes Brooklyn-based Ultra Robotics raised a $50M Series A led by Framework Ventures for its warehouse RaaS business — 500K+ orders packed, integration fee plus monthly support pricing, and a partnership with Physical Intelligence
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