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Locus Robotics is a company selling mobile robots for use in order fulfillment warehouses. The workers are in the aisles of the warehouse, and when a robot comes to a shelf where a particular item is stored, the worker is directed to remove the item from the shelf and place it into a bin carried by the robot. Once the robot is carrying some number of items, it takes the bin to a workstation where a worker packs the items for shipment. (This is in contrast to the Amazon Robotics (formerly Kiva Systems) where the worker stands at a station and the robot brings a shelving unit to them so that they can remove items for an order.)

Quiet Logistics is a Third-party logistics company that was founded to take advantage of the Kiva product. After Amazon.com acquired Kiva and took the Kiva products off of the market, reserving them for internal use only, Quiet Logistics founded Locus Robotics to replace the Kiva product their business relied on, and maintain control of it. Quiet Logistics spun off Locus Robotics as a separate company in 2015.

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