00:00Amazon has quietly acquired River, a Swiss robotics company developing four-legged wheeled robots designed to assist with doorstep delivery,
00:09confirming the deal through a notice sent to its third-party delivery contractors.
00:13The acquisition builds on Amazon's existing relationship with River, having previously backed the company through its $1 billion industrial innovation
00:22fund, and with Jeff Bezos' own venture firm participating in River's $22 million seed round last March.
00:30The move is the latest step in Amazon's decade-long push to automate its logistics operations, a network that already
00:38deploys more than one million robots across its warehouses worldwide.
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