Amazon Acquires Autonomous Robotics Startup Rivr

Amazon has acquired Rivr, a startup focused connected autonomous robotics. Rivr is based successful Zurich and was weighted astatine $110 cardinal successful a backing information from August 2024, which some Amazon and its CEO's Bezos Expeditions participated in. Financial specifications of nan acquisition were not disclosed.

Rivr's robots person 4 legs and wheels that let it to maneuver connected stairs and different perchance uneven surfaces. The institution conscionable released its 2nd procreation of nan robot. The acquisition will apt further Amazon's capabilities for ever-faster and much businesslike package deliveries.

"This acquisition reflects our committedness to a continued finance successful research, which we judge has nan imaginable to further amended information outcomes and nan wide transportation acquisition for transportation work partners and their transportation associates," a typical from Amazon told The Information.

Amazon has been moving toward introducing automations and robotics astatine various stages of its shopping business. It deployed its 1 millionth robot past summertime and has early goals for automating 75 percent of each its operations.