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Amazon and Kiva: 13 Years of Automation

Amazon acquired Kiva in 2012, and in 13 years, the number of robots has grown to 750,000.

πŸ€– On this day in 2012, Amazon acquired Kiva, a company that produced robots for warehouses.

Just a year later, around 1,000 robots were already working in Amazon's warehouses.

Today, there are over 750,000 of them.

This is what the scale of automation looks like after 13 years. And this is just the beginning.

#ai #agi #robotics

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