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Facing economic headwinds, Amazon consolidates robotic projects
TechCrunch· 2 years agoThe 350,000-square-foot Amazon facility opened its doors a little over a year ago. Inside is a state...
Amazon envisions its new Sparrow robot performing the most common warehouse tasks, according to a...
Business Insider via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoAmazon's new robot arm, Sparrow.Amazon Amazon showed off a new picking robot on Thursday, a major...
Amazon debuts Sparrow, a new bin-picking robot arm
TechCrunch· 2 years agoThe bin-moving robots designed by Kiva Systems still form the foundation of Amazon’s warehouse robotics play a decade after it acquired the startup....
Amazon's Constructive Step To Beef Up Warehouse Safety, Acquires Cloostermans
Benzinga via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoAmazon.com, Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) scooped Cloostermans, a Belgian company that makes technology used in...
House, Senate Democrats ask FTC to fight Amazon's acquisition of iRobot (updated)
Engadget· 2 years agoAmazon might face some political opposition in its bid to acquire iRobot. Democrats including...
Amazon defined warehouse robotics -- so, what’s next?
TechCrunch· 2 years agoIt took exactly two minutes for today’s TC Sessions: Robotics fulfillment panel to make its first...
The Amazon robots are here, and they don’t even have to be kept in cages anymore
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoAmazon unveiled its first fully autonomous mobile robot this week, and it could soon join human...
Amazon is buying iRobot for $1.7B
TechCrunch· 2 years agoAmazon this morning announced plans to acquire iRobot for an all-cash deal valued at $1.7 billion. The home robotics firm, best known for pioneering the...
A quick trip to MARS
TechCrunch· 2 years agoDuring yesterday’s keynote, chief technologist Tye Brady debuted some of Amazon Robotics’ forthcoming robots, which will join the 520,000 or so it’s...
A newsletter that’s mostly about Amazon and iRobot
TechCrunch· 2 years agoNo, in the sense that, of course Amazon is buying iRobot. It’s significantly higher than the 2012 $775 million Kiva Systems acquisition (just about $1...