Amazon’s Joe Quinlivan discusses how building a robot army fueled its e-commerce dominance at TC Sessions: Robotics 2022

There’s an 800-pound gorilla in the warehouse, and its name is Amazon. 
Back in 2012, the company bought Kiva Systems for $775 million and renamed it Amazon Robotics. The deal, in hindsight, was a prescient indicator of the outsized role robotics would take in the warehouse automation and fulfillment industry.
In just one decade, Amazon has dominated the warehouse automation market, grown its fleet of autonomous robots to more than 350,000 and, as a result, completely redefined consumer expectations for fast, free delivery.
That’s an achievement worthy of exploration and why we’re thrilled to 

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