Amazon acquires delivery robotics startup Rivr

2026-03-20 – 2026-03-23

In this brief

  • RAPiD: method for deformable object mobile manipulation
  • AGILE: Workflow for Sim-to-Real Loco-Manipulation Learning
  • HortiMulti: Multi-sensor dataset for localization and mapping in horticulture
  • Amazon acquires delivery robotics startup Rivr
  • QCraft closes $100M Series D financing
  • SynapX closes ~$50M seed round within two months of founding
  • ORCA releases open-source simulation and control tooling for OrcaHand
  • Xynova closes Pre-A round

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