Kiva Systems (Amazon Robotics since 2012)

Kiva Systems was a warehouse robotics company founded in 2003 that pioneered the goods-to-person mobile fulfillment model, in which fleets of low-profile drive units lift and carry mobile storage pods to human pick stations instead of moving workers to static shelving. Amazon acquired Kiva Systems in March 2012 for approximately US$775 million and renamed it Amazon Robotics in 2015. Since the acquisition the technology has been developed exclusively for Amazon's own fulfillment and sortation network and is no longer sold to third parties. Amazon Robotics publishes no public API, developer portal or SDKs; amazonrobotics.com now redirects to Amazon's internal identity provider and kivasystems.com no longer resolves. This profile is retained as a historical and acquisition record in the physical-AI and warehouse-robotics space rather than as an integratable API provider. Not to be confused with AWS RoboMaker or AWS IoT RoboRunner, which are AWS product APIs.

Kiva Systems (Amazon Robotics since 2012) is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Physical AI, Robotics, Warehouse Automation, and Fulfillment.

Kiva Systems (Amazon Robotics since 2012)’s developer surface includes engineering blog and 9 more developer resources.

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7.6/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

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Company Physical AI Robotics Warehouse Automation Fulfillment Logistics Acquisition Amazon

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Composite quality — 7.6/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.5 / 20

Access Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 1.4 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 5.7 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Kiva Systems Amazon Robotics Since 2012 Domain Security

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: kiva-systems-amazon-robotics-since-2012
name: Kiva Systems (Amazon Robotics since 2012)
description: Kiva Systems was a warehouse robotics company founded in 2003 that pioneered the goods-to-person mobile fulfillment
  model, in which fleets of low-profile drive units lift and carry mobile storage pods to human pick stations instead of moving
  workers to static shelving. Amazon acquired Kiva Systems in March 2012 for approximately US$775 million and renamed it Amazon
  Robotics in 2015. Since the acquisition the technology has been developed exclusively for Amazon's own fulfillment and sortation
  network and is no longer sold to third parties. Amazon Robotics publishes no public API, developer portal or SDKs; amazonrobotics.com
  now redirects to Amazon's internal identity provider and kivasystems.com no longer resolves. This profile is retained as
  a historical and acquisition record in the physical-AI and warehouse-robotics space rather than as an integratable API provider.
  Not to be confused with AWS RoboMaker or AWS IoT RoboRunner, which are AWS product APIs.
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://static.amazon.jobs/global_images/2/images/Jobs_thumbnailV2.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kiva-systems-amazon-robotics-since-2012/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- bain-capital-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-api-surface: none
x-api-surface-note: No public API, developer portal, SDKs or event surface. Verified 2026-07-19.
x-acquired-by: amazon
x-acquired-date: 2012-03
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Physical AI
- Robotics
- Warehouse Automation
- Fulfillment
- Logistics
- Acquisition
- Amazon
tags_raw:
- Company
- Physical Ai
- Robotics
- Warehouse Automation
- Fulfillment
- Logistics
- Acquisition
- Amazon
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/teams/amazon-robotics
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/operations
- type: Research
  url: https://www.amazon.science/research-areas/robotics
- type: Learning
  url: https://learning.robotics.amazon.dev/
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/kiva-systems-amazon-robotics-since-2012-domain-security.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/kiva-systems-amazon-robotics-since-2012-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: security/kiva-systems-amazon-robotics-since-2012-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/kiva-systems-amazon-robotics-since-2012-security.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/kiva-systems-amazon-robotics-since-2012-well-known.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/kiva-systems-amazon-robotics-since-2012-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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