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Amazon’s total number of deployed robots has 66x in 10 years. The robotics program began after its 2012 acquisition of Kiva Systems for $775m. It aimed at automating warehouse picking and sorting. What started as a logistics efficiency project has evolved into one of the world's largest fleets of autonomous systems. We recently released a primer on how Amazon became the backbone of ecommerce and the internet, as yesterday’s AWS outage reminded the world. Check out my Substack if you want to learn with me: https://t.co/yptG7PyuPo