{"id":2854,"date":"2012-03-19T19:49:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T02:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.12sided.com\/blog\/?p=2854"},"modified":"2012-03-19T19:49:59","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T02:49:59","slug":"amazon-buys-kiva-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/?p=2854","title":{"rendered":"Amazon buys Kiva Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6KRjuuEVEZs?feature=player_embedded\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The amazing Kiva Systems robots are now part of Amazon.com. Kiva System&#8217;s robots already have a place at Amazon&#8217;s Zappos. Now Amazon looks to likely take this technology forward in the operations and logistics side of the house. Toys-R-us is a Kiva Systems customer. Maybe this can help the Amazon and Toys-R-Us relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some interesting and relevant Kiva Systems articles from 2009:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/boston\/2009\/07\/23\/amazons-acquisition-of-zappos-is-a-good-thing-for-kiva-says-robot-companys-ceo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon\u2019s Acquisition of Zappos Is \u201cA Good Thing for Kiva,\u201d Says Robot Company\u2019s CEO<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also check Forbes, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/forbes\/2009\/0316\/040_bot_time_saves_nine.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bot-In-Time Delivery<\/a>&#8221; for more about Kiva.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon&#8217;s press release:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/phx.corporate-ir.net\/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&#038;p=irol-newsArticle&#038;ID=1674133&#038;highlight=\" title=\"Amazon.com to Acquire Kiva Systems, Inc.\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon.com to Acquire Kiva Systems, Inc.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: My wife is employed by Amazon by does not read my blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The amazing Kiva Systems robots are now part of Amazon.com. Kiva System&#8217;s robots already have a place at Amazon&#8217;s Zappos. Now Amazon looks to likely take this technology forward in the operations and logistics side of the house. Toys-R-us is a Kiva Systems customer. Maybe this can help the Amazon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[24,200,283],"class_list":["post-2854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it","category-thoughts","tag-amazon","tag-kiva-systems","tag-robots"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}