Amazon Robotics
Amazon Robotics (AMZN) is a publicly traded Warehouse Automation company founded in 2003 and based in North Reading, United States.
Amazon Robotics is a robotics unit headquartered in North Reading, United States, and originates from the Kiva Systems company co-founded in 2003 by Mick Mountz, Peter Wurman, and Raffaello D'Andrea. The unit develops warehouse automation hardware and software used in fulfillment and sortation facilities. Its product line includes Kiva Drive Units, which carry storage pods to human pickers; Proteus, an autonomous mobile robot for carts and totes; Sequoia, an automated storage and retrieval system built on a dense tote grid; and Vulcan, a robotic picking system using tactile sensing and machine learning. Amazon Robotics operates as a division of Amazon, which is publicly traded under the ticker AMZN, so it does not report separate capital funding. Joseph Quinlivan serves as VP Global Robotics, Fulfillment & Information Technologies.
Amazon Robotics builds the mobile drive units, autonomous transport robots, storage and retrieval systems, and robotic picking arms that run inside Amazon's own fulfillment network. Its Kiva Drive Units are described as the foundation of Amazon's warehouse automation strategy, with a fleet of more than one million robots. The unit's lineage traces to Kiva Systems, whose co-founders were inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Its work on tactile-sensing picking and AI-driven transport shows how large-scale warehouse automation is being built and deployed.
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Headquarters
North Reading
United StatesFounded
2003
Status
Public
Subsector
Robotics, ranked
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No dated funding rounds on file. This company is privately held and may be raising or operating on undisclosed capital.