https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/02/amazons-joe-quinlivan-discusses-how-building-a-robot-army-fueled-its-e-commerce-dominance-at-tc-sessions-robotics-2022/

There’s an 800-pound gorilla in the warehouse, and its name is Amazon. 

Back in 2012, the company bought Kiva Systems for $775 million and renamed it Amazon Robotics. The deal, in hindsight, was a prescient indicator of the outsized role robotics would take in the warehouse automation and fulfillment industry.