Amazon Acquires Kiva Systems For $775 Million In Cash

With Amazon's resources, Kiva's warehouse automation will be widely used. Amazon can take it down the route of AWS.

I am very happy for my advisor, who's the CTO at Kiva Systems. Congratulations!

Awesome, love to hear about robotics used for something other than hunting and killing!

I wonder if Amazon is going to try to do in fulfillment / logistics / etc. what they've done in web services.

Perfect a highly efficient system, then charge others for access to the same technology.

Or if this is just a play to keep the KIVA system to themselves and provide a competitive advantage. They obviously didn't need to buy KIVA to get access to the system, so it strikes me that it's one of those two possible reasons.