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Amazon Robotics
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- harigov 11y agoThey seem to have renamed Kiva Systems, which Amazon bought for $775M in 2012, to Amazon Robotics. Relevant article - http://www.dcvelocity.com/articles/20150426-kiva-systems-to-be-renamed-amazon-robotics/ http://www.dcvelocity.com/articles/20150426-kiva-systems-to-... For those who don't know, Kiva Systems builds robotics systems for warehouses.
- leftnode 11y agoAn interesting interview with the founder of Kiva on NPR's "From Scratch" - http://www.npr.org/2014/01/09/261095138/mick-mountz-founder-of-kiva-systems http://www.npr.org/2014/01/09/261095138/mick-mountz-founder-...
- Zaskoda 11y agoThey sure have a lot of job openings.
- ChuckMcM 11y agoLike they are either rebuilding from scratch or growing quite a bit. But it is an impressive list.
- degenerate 11y agoLink for everyone: https://www.amazonrobotics.com/#/careers#open https://www.amazonrobotics.com/#/careers#open
- dangrossman 11y agoThere's something distasteful about this site. Like using footage of all the pick-and-pack employees to sell you on helping to build the robots that will eliminate their jobs en masse.
- radiorental 11y agoI understand your perspective. However, to take two broader views a) Assuming as a reader of hn you are somehow involved in software development. You're putting someone out of a job somewhere. Software & Robotics are automation of processes. Take your project for example https://www.improvely.com/ https://www.improvely.com/ What took two marketing people to crunch numbers now takes one. Now look at your project from that persons perspective. b) This is happening and while it will be painful for those not trained/aware. It might be a very good thing https://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_mcafee_are_droids_taking_our_jobs?language=en https://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_mcafee_are_droids_taking_ou...