Amazon to Hire Covariant Founders to Expand Warehouse Automation
- ‘Acquihire’ will see Amazon add Covariant executives, staff
- Includes non-exclusive license to robotic foundation models
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Amazon.com Inc. is hiring the founders of robot-software maker Covariant, in a move known as an “acquihire” that is aimed at helping the e-commerce leader boost its warehouse automation.
Amazon said in a blogpost on Friday that it will absorb executives and about a quarter of the staff from Covariant. People with knowledge of the matter earlier said that Amazon was purchasing the company.