Robots, AI, and green packaging gains: Lifting the lid on Amazon's innovation lab

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The retail giant operates one of Europe's most advanced R&D centres for robotics, AI, and machine learning in Northern Italy - BusinessGreen went to take a look at the resulting green innovations

Not far from the Po River in the northern Italian countryside, where snow-capped Alps pepper the horizon, lies an ancient town called Vercelli. Situated slap bang between Turin and Milan, about an hour's...

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