Kiva Systems -> Amazon Robotics, Amazon's Automation Research Group

Amazon acquired Kiva Systems in 2012, then went dark.  No new customers mentioned.  Sales staff was let go.  Now in August 2015 www.kivasystems.com will point to Amazon Robotics https://www.amazonrobotics.com/#/

A recruitment video is here.  https://www.amazonrobotics.com/#/vision

Here are the current open positions.  Sorry for the formatting, but too much time to clean this up.  You get the idea of the hiring amazon is doing.  https://www.amazonrobotics.com/#/careers#open

Google, Facebook, Apple, and so many of the other high tech companies with huge data centers have robotics efforts.  A huge data center behind robotics makes so much sense.