Scott Dresser leads Amazon Robotics, an innovative global robotics team focused on designing, developing, manufacturing, and deploying systems based on mobile and manipulation robotics for Amazon’s world-wide operations network

He joined Amazon in 2012 as part of the acquisition of Kiva Systems, a Massachusetts based start‐up focused on developing robotics automation solutions for e‐commerce fulfillment. His strategic leadership has guided the organization through its automation of Amazon's fulfillment centers to today, where Amazon has deployed over 750,000 robots in its fulfillment network. Scott initially led the software architecture and software development organization that migrated Kiva’s software to a scalable service‐based architecture for managing and optimizing large fleets of robots and automation.

Scott holds a Degree of Engineer and Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Stanford University, Graduate School of Engineering and received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s School of Engineering.