Amazon Robotics

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34 points·markmassie··7 comments

They 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-...

For those who don't know, Kiva Systems builds robotics systems for warehouses.

An interesting interview with the founder of Kiva on NPR's "From Scratch" - http://www.npr.org/2014/01/09/261095138/mick-mountz-founder-...

There'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.

I 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/ 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_ou...

They sure have a lot of job openings.

Link for everyone: https://www.amazonrobotics.com/#/careers#open

Like they are either rebuilding from scratch or growing quite a bit. But it is an impressive list.

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