TL;DR: Amazon just snapped up two robotics startups in a single month, grabbing stair-climbing delivery bots and kid-sized humanoids.
Amazon is quietly building a serious robotic army. The e-commerce giant just bought Fauna Robotics, a startup focused on kid-sized humanoid robots. And that is actually their second robotics acquisition this month.
A few days earlier, Amazon picked up Rivr. They make stair-climbing delivery robots. Jeff Bezos had already backed Rivr personally, so bringing them in-house makes perfect sense. They clearly want to solve the hardest part of delivery, which is getting packages straight to your actual doorstep.
Adding Fauna to the mix is the real wild card. Why does Amazon need kid-sized humanoids? We don’t know yet. But combining doorstep delivery tech with agile humanoid forms points to a future where your prime packages are handed to you by a robot walking right up your front steps.