Mass High Tech reports that Woburn’s Kiva Systems has just landed work from Walgreen’s, expanding their automated inventory and warehousing systems’ reach to another big box store. And yes, this means that your kids will have to take a service industry job. So make sure they keep brushing their teeth.
The system works just as you would imagine–robotic shelves shuffling about responding to orders and requests. Its not as flashy as the Jetsons, but it is damn cool and likely to make Bain Capital (who gave $10 mil to Kiva in 2005) some good money.
The best part of this is that it came from Mick Mountz, formerly attached to Webvan, one of the dotcom’s biggest busts thanks to the media hype. You don’t remember Webvan? Probably better that way.
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