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Rohit Prasad

Chief Executive Officer, Boston Dynamics

Search every verified Rohit Prasad interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Rohit Prasad, Chief Executive Officer at Boston Dynamics, appeared at the Imagination in Action event at MIT Media Lab on April 10, 2026, in a conversation with WSJ's Sarah Krouse and Daniela Rus. During the discussion, he described himself as a "free agent" and addressed topics including the difficulty of replacing smartphones as primary devices, the early stage of using scaled AI models like Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude for commerce and search tasks, and challenges in human-robot interaction. He recounted an anecdote about a humanoid robot that successfully watered a plant but then attempted to pour water on a person's shoes, illustrating the complexity of natural human-machine interaction. In earlier appearances, Prasad discussed Amazon Alexa's development and AI research. At Amazon re:MARS 2022, he advocated for "generalizable intelligence" as distinct from artificial general intelligence, emphasizing AI's ability to generalize across tasks, adapt to user environments, and learn new concepts. He also described a voice conversion technique that allowed Alexa to read a book in a child's grandmother's voice using less than a minute of recording. In a 2021 TiECON East keynote, he discussed trust and privacy in AI systems, highlighting transparency and control as fundamental principles, and demonstrated the home robot Astro. In 2019 podcast appearances, he spoke about making Alexa sound natural, improving skill discovery, and features like follow-up mode and Alexa Guard.

Recent appearances

  • Intelligence at Scale | WSJ's Sarah Krouse with Rohit Prasad & Daniela Rus

    April 23, 2026 · 📺 Imagination in Action

    WSJ's Sarah Krouse in conversation with the creator of Amazon's Alexa & the head of MIT CSAIL. ====== ✌️ Subscribe! http://bit.ly/ImaginationInAction-You... 👉 More info: https://www.imaginationinaction.co/ 🐦 Join the conversation! #ImaginationInAction ====== Leading in an Intelligent World On April 10th, 225 speakers across 6 stages joined Imagination in Action at MIT Media Lab to explore how intelligence is built, deployed, governed, and directed toward the world's hardest problems — alongside 60 startup pitches and 2 AI agent workshops with 500 participants. ======

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  • Rohit Prasad - Corporate Excellence

    December 05, 2022 · 📺 TiE Boston

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  • Amazon re:MARS 2022 - Day 2 - Keynote

    June 22, 2022 · 📺 AWS Events

    Be inspired by Rohit Prasad, SVP and Head Scientist, Alexa AI, Amazon, Tye Brady, Chief Technologist, Amazon Robotics, Dilip Kumar, VP, Physical Retail and Technology, Amazon, will showcase Amazon’s efforts to push the state-of-the-art forward in robotics, computer vision, sensor fusion, natural language processing, and more. They are joined by Ariel Ekblaw, Director of the MIT Space Exploration Initiative, Thomas Oxley, CEO of Synchron, Inc., and Justin Cyrus, CEO of Lunar Outpost. ASL (American Sign Language) is available here - https://bit.ly/3PuV575 Speakers: 0:00 Adam Savage, Editor-in-…

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  • Rohit Prasad, SVP and Head Scientist for Alexa | Amazon Web Services

    May 13, 2022 · 📺 Amazon Web Services

    Callisto is an ambitious new test partnership between Amazon and Lockheed Martin to study the feasibility of integrating Alexa into the Orion spacecraft architecture to help spacefarers navigate the challenges of working off-world. Learn more about Amazon re:MARS at https://bit.ly/3wcvGIY. Subscribe: More AWS videos - http://bit.ly/2O3zS75 More AWS events videos - http://bit.ly/316g9t4 ABOUT AWS Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customers — includ…

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  • TiECON East 2021 Keynotes - Rohit Prasad

    November 04, 2021 · 📺 TiE Boston

    TiECON East 2021 Keynote by Rohit Prasad SVP, Head Scientist at Amazon Alexa Introduction by Kiran Uppuluri Founder and CEO, verteXD TiECON East (https://www.tieconeast.com/) is the largest one day conference focused on innovation and entrepreneurship in Massachusetts.

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  • Rohit Prasad: Making Alexa Sound Natural | AI Podcast Clips

    December 16, 2019 · 📺 Lex Clips

    Full episode with Rohit Prasad (Dec 2019):    • Rohit Prasad: Amazon Alexa and Conversatio...   Clips channel (Lex Clips):    / lexclips   Main channel (Lex Fridman):    / lexfridman   (more links below) Podcast full episodes playlist:    • Lex Fridman Podcast   Podcasts clips playlist:    • Lex Fridman Podcast Clips   Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/ai Podcast on Apple Podcasts (iTunes): https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Podcast on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 Podcast RSS: https://lexfridman.com/category/ai/feed/ Rohit Prasad is the vice president and head scientist of Amazon Alexa…

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  • Rohit Prasad: Amazon Alexa and Conversational AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #57

    December 14, 2019 · 📺 Lex Fridman

    Rohit Prasad is the vice president and head scientist of Amazon Alexa and one of its original creators. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep57-sb See below for timestamps, and to give feedback, submit questions, contact Lex, etc. CONTACT LEX: Feedback - give feedback to Lex: https://lexfridman.com/survey AMA - submit questions, videos or call-in: https://lexfridman.com/ama Hiring - join our team: https://lexfridman.com/hiring Other - other ways to get in touch: https://lexfridman.com/contact OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 4:34 - Her 6:31 - Human-…

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