# Amazon acquires Kiva Systems (Warehouse Robotics Foundation): partnership

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Amazon acquired Massachusetts-based Kiva Systems in 2012 for 75M, forming the foundation of Amazon Robotics. Kiva's drive units use downward-facing cameras to read floor barcodes, upward cameras for rack barcodes, infrared sensors, and collision-detection bumpers. This acquisition launched Amazon's warehouse robotics empire — now including Pegasus, Xanthus, and hundreds of thousands of deployed robots.

- **Type:** investment
- **Status:** concluded
- **Verification posture:** verified

## Parties (2)

- [Amazon](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/amazon.md) customer
- Kiva Systems _(off-registry)_ technology provider

## Timeline

- **Announced:** 2012-03-19
- **Start:** 2012-03-19

## Sources (1)

1. https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/operations/amazon-robotics-robots-fulfillment-center


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