Amazon.com, Inc. News
Latest Amazon.com, Inc. news, funding rounds and robotics & AI coverage. $62M raised. 20 articles tracked by The Robotics Media.
About Amazon.com, Inc.
Amazon.com, Inc. is a technology and e-commerce company founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994 as an online bookstore. It has since expanded into cloud computing (Amazon Web Services), digital advertising, streaming media, consumer devices, and physical automation, and is publicly traded on NASDAQ under the ticker AMZN.
Amazon's robotics arm, Amazon Robotics, originated from its 2012 acquisition of Kiva Systems and builds warehouse automation hardware and software, including the Hercules, Proteus, Sparrow, Vulcan, Robin and Cardinal robots used across its fulfillment network. The company has stated it operates more than one million robots across hundreds of facilities worldwide.
Amazon also develops autonomous drone delivery through Prime Air, operating the MK30 delivery drone across a growing number of U.S. metro areas, and designs its own AI chips (Trainium, Inferentia) and foundation models (Amazon Nova) for use on AWS. Its broader business remains dominated by online retail, third-party marketplace services, and cloud infrastructure.
Key facts
Products by Amazon.com, Inc.
- Proteus (Robot, 2022) — Fully autonomous mobile robot that moves heavy carts and inventory through Amazon fulfillment centers.
- Sparrow (Robot, 2022) — Robotic arm that identifies, handles and sorts individual items within fulfillment centers.
- Vulcan (Robot, 2025) — Warehouse robot with a sense of touch used for picking and placing individual products.
- Hercules (Robot) — Mobile robot that moves inventory pods throughout Amazon warehouses.
- MK30 (Drone, 2024) — Electric vertical-takeoff delivery drone used by Amazon Prime Air for package delivery up to five pounds.
- AWS Trainium (Component, 2020) — Amazon's custom AI accelerator chip designed for training and running machine learning models on AWS.
- Amazon Nova (AI Model, 2024) — Family of foundation models built by Amazon and offered through AWS Bedrock.
- Amazon Web Services (Service, 2006) — Amazon's cloud computing platform providing compute, storage and AI infrastructure services.
Funding rounds
- IPO — $54M — 1997
- Series A — $8M — 1996 — led by Kleiner Perkins
Latest Amazon.com, Inc. news
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- Amazon Prime Air Plans 500 US Drone Delivery Cities By End Of 2026 — Amazon says its MK30 drones will reach nearly 500 US cities and towns this year, a sixfold expansion of Prime Air's current 11-metro footprint.
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