Tell the Robot What You Want — Sandhya Subramani, AWS
AWS Strands Agents open-source framework gives physical robots natural language reasoning capability
“I've given this robot an agentic layer and I've given it it's called strands agents which is an open-source framework which was built by AWS”
AWS engineer Sandhya Subramani live-demos Scout, a rover controlled via natural language using AWS's open-source Strands Agents agentic framework running on a Raspberry Pi with 4G connectivity. The robot interprets freeform commands, answers unprompted questions about its environment, and executes physical actions without task-specific training. The demo illustrates agentic AI moving into physical robotics, but the talk is primarily a practitioner-level engineering walkthrough rather than a major announcement.