# Kiva Systems (Amazon Robotics since 2012)

> Kiva Systems was a warehouse robotics company founded in 2003 that pioneered the
> goods-to-person mobile fulfillment model, in which fleets of low-profile drive units
> lift and carry mobile storage pods to human pick stations rather than moving workers to
> static shelving. Amazon acquired Kiva Systems in March 2012 for approximately US$775
> million and renamed it Amazon Robotics in 2015. Since the acquisition the technology has
> been developed exclusively for Amazon's own fulfillment and sortation network and is no
> longer sold to third parties.

## Status for API consumers

- Amazon Robotics publishes **no public API, no developer portal, and no SDKs**. There is
  no OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, GraphQL, gRPC or MCP surface to integrate against.
- `amazonrobotics.com` is no longer a public marketing site; requests redirect to Amazon's
  internal federated identity provider and return HTTP 403 to the public internet.
- `kivasystems.com` no longer resolves.
- The robotics control plane, fleet management software and warehouse execution systems
  are internal Amazon systems. Any APIs are private to Amazon.
- Do not confuse Amazon Robotics with **AWS RoboMaker** (a separate, now-discontinued AWS
  service) or with **AWS IoT RoboRunner**. Those are AWS product APIs and belong to the
  `aws` provider profile, not to this one.

## Public surfaces

- [Amazon Robotics team page](https://www.amazon.jobs/en/teams/amazon-robotics): the
  primary public page for the division — mission, greater-Boston locations, open roles.
- [Fulfillment Technology and Robotics](https://amazon.jobs/content/en/teams/ftr): the
  wider Amazon org that Amazon Robotics sits inside.
- [Amazon Science — Robotics research area](https://www.amazon.science/research-areas/robotics):
  published papers and research from Amazon's robotics scientists.
- [About Amazon — Operations news](https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/operations): corporate
  announcements covering robotics deployments across the fulfillment network.
- [Global Robotics University](https://learning.robotics.amazon.dev/): Amazon's public
  robotics learning site.

## Security

- Amazon Robotics publishes no `security.txt` of its own. Vulnerability intake runs
  through the parent company program: the **Amazon Vulnerability Research Program** on
  HackerOne (`https://hackerone.com/amazonvrp`), declared in
  `https://www.amazon.com/.well-known/security.txt`.
- AWS vulnerabilities use a separate intake:
  `https://aws.amazon.com/security/vulnerability-reporting/`.

## Artifacts in this profile

- `well-known/kiva-systems-amazon-robotics-since-2012-well-known.yml` — probe results for
  every `/.well-known/` path across the Amazon Robotics and parent hosts, with statuses.
- `well-known/kiva-systems-amazon-robotics-since-2012-security.txt` — the parent-company
  `security.txt`, saved verbatim.
- `security/kiva-systems-amazon-robotics-since-2012-vulnerability-disclosure.yml` — the
  Amazon VRP disclosure program, scoped as parent-company.
- `security/kiva-systems-amazon-robotics-since-2012-domain-security.yml` — TLS, HSTS,
  DNSSEC, CAA, SPF and DMARC probe results for the public host.

## Notes

This profile entered the API Evangelist network as a venture-portfolio lead (Bain Capital
Ventures was an investor in Kiva Systems before the Amazon acquisition). It is retained as
a historical and acquisition record in the physical-AI and warehouse-robotics space rather
than as an integratable API provider.