Amazon is moving toward zero-touch manufacturing. Source: Amazon/Nvidia
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Amazon moves toward ‘zero-touch’ manufacturing with Nvidia AI and digital twins

Using Nvidia digital twin technologies, Amazon Devices & Services is powering big leaps in
manufacturing with a new physical AI software solution.

Deployed this month at an Amazon Devices facility, the company’s innovative, simulation-
first approach for zero-touch manufacturing trains robotic arms to inspect diverse devices for product-quality auditing and integrate new goods into the production line — all based
on synthetic data, without requiring hardware changes.

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Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.