{"id":145979,"date":"2022-09-09T13:22:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T18:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/amazon-acquires-warehouse-machinery-and-robotics-maker-cloostermans"},"modified":"2022-09-09T13:22:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T18:22:30","slug":"amazon-acquires-warehouse-machinery-and-robotics-maker-cloostermans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/amazon-acquires-warehouse-machinery-and-robotics-maker-cloostermans","title":{"rendered":"Amazon acquires warehouse machinery and robotics maker Cloostermans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/amazon-acquires-warehouse-machinery-and-robotics-maker-cloostermans2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cloostermans will become part of Amazon Robotics, Amazon\u2019s division focused on automating aspects of its warehouse operations. The unit was formed after Amazon <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.nytimes.com\/dealbook.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/19\/amazon-com-buys-kiva-systems-for-775-million\/\" target=\"_blank\">acquired<\/a> Kiva Systems, a manufacturer of warehouse robots, for $775 million a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon continues to launch new machines in warehouses. In June, the company unveiled a package ferrying machine called Proteus, which it referred to as its first fully autonomous mobile robot. It\u2019s also deployed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/06\/13\/amazon-details-new-warehouse-robots-ernie-and-bert.html\">other robots<\/a> that can help sort and move packages.<\/p>\n<p>In a blog post, Ian Simpson, vice president of Global Robotics at Amazon, said the company is investing in robotics and other technology to make its warehouses safer for employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloostermans will become part of Amazon Robotics, Amazon\u2019s division focused on automating aspects of its warehouse operations. The unit was formed after Amazon acquired Kiva Systems, a manufacturer of warehouse robots, for $775 million a decade ago. Amazon continues to launch new machines in warehouses. In June, the company unveiled a package ferrying machine called [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}