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Amazon is now using a whole lot more of the robots from the company it bought for $775 million

Eugene KimOct 23, 2015, 04:05 IST

A Kiva robot moves a rack of merchandise at an Amazon fulfilment center on 20 January2015 in Tracy, California.Getty

Remember Kiva Systems?

It's the company Amazon bought for $775 million in 2012. Kiva makes robots that automate the whole picking and packing process at large warehouses.

Amazon began using Kiva robots only last year, and by the end of 2014, said it had 15,000 bots working across 10 of its warehouses.

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Now it looks like Amazon's using the Kiva robots a lot more widely, according to its earnings call that just ended now.

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