RIVR

Market context

RIVR matters because the final doorstep leg remains a hard logistics problem, and its wheeled-legged form factor is designed around real curb-to-door constraints. RIVR TWO

Products

• RIVR TWO

Facts

• Website: https://www.rivr.ai/
• HQ: Zurich, Switzerland
• Founded: 2023
• Segment: Delivery
• Known funding rounds: 1

Funding

• 2024-08-16 - Seed - $22M - Swiss-Mile raises $22M seed round for wheeled-legged robots - source: rivr.ai

Investors

• Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund - Participant - Corporate / Cvc - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2024-08-16
• Armada Investment - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-08-16
• Bezos Expeditions - Lead - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-08-16
• HongShan - Lead - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-08-16
• Linear Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-08-16

Wheeled-legged delivery robots for doorstep logistics and physical AI

RIVR develops wheeled-legged delivery robots for last-mile and last-100-yard logistics. The company positions doorstep delivery as a data-rich deployment path for general physical AI, combining robot hardware, reinforcement learning and real-world self-supervised learning.

• Target environment: Urban delivery routes, sidewalks, stairs, porches, residential access points and dense last-mile logistics environments.
• Deployment model: Full-stack robotics model built around wheeled-legged delivery robots, autonomy software, learning systems, pilot deployments and logistics partnerships.
• Customer context: Delivery companies, parcel networks, retailers, logistics platforms and partners seeking robotic delivery beyond sidewalks.
• Workflow context: Doorstep delivery, stair traversal, wheeled-legged mobility, last-100-yard logistics, real-world robot learning and autonomous parcel handling.
• Commercial maturity: RIVR has visible pilot activity and a differentiated mobility design, but commercial maturity remains early and depends on converting pilots into reliable fleet operations.
• Market position: Swiss delivery robotics company positioned around difficult doorstep access rather than simple sidewalk delivery.
• Adoption constraints: Outdoor reliability, route complexity, payload limits, safety, fleet economics, customer acceptance, operational supervision and scaling beyond pilots.
• Adjacent context: Delivery robots, physical AI, wheeled-legged robots, last-mile logistics, autonomous ground vehicles and mobile manipulation-adjacent delivery.
• Source confidence: high

Events

• 2026-03-23 - Acquisition - Amazon acquires delivery robotics startup Rivr - • Amazon acquired Zurich-based robotics startup Rivr, known for its four-wheeled, stair-climbing delivery robots. • Rivr's technology had been piloted in Austin, Texas, where its robots delivered packages from vans directly to customers' front doors. • The ac…
• 2026-02-12 - Deployment - RIVR brings doorstep delivery robots to Milton Keynes - Doorstep-delivery deployment begins in Milton Keynes The move extends the UK footprint after earlier logistics rollout activity Listed as a company news milestone on the stories index
• 2025-09-03 - Deployment - RIVR, Swiss Post, and Migros Online begin doorstep delivery field test in Regensdorf - Collaboration with Swiss Post and Migros Online starts a field test in Regensdorf, canton of Zurich The test includes Swiss Post parcels and Migros Online grocery orders Doorstep delivery robots support the pilot
• 2025-08-20 - Deployment - RIVR and Just Eat Takeaway.com begin robotic food delivery in Zurich - Partnership with Just Eat Takeaway.com brings food-delivery robots to Zurich Real customer food orders are delivered by robot in the city Expansion to additional European cities is planned later in the year
• 2025-05-27 - Deployment - RIVR launches in the U.S. with Veho in Austin - Official U.S. launch is announced through a partnership with Veho Wheeled-legged robots are introduced in Austin Deployment targets the final segment from delivery vehicle to customer doorstep
• 2025-03-31 - Partnership - RIVR partners with Evri for last-100-yard parcel delivery - RIVR announces a strategic partnership with Evri Evri will deploy RIVR wheeled-legged robots for last-100-yard parcel delivery Initial rollout begins in Barnsley, South Yorkshire
• 2025-01-03 - Org Change - Swiss-Mile becomes RIVR and shifts focus to last-mile delivery - Swiss-Mile rebrands to RIVR Company states that it is sharpening its focus on last-mile delivery Rebrand comes ahead of planned 2025 field testing with major logistics carriers
• 2024-08-16 - Funding - Swiss-Mile raises $22M seed round for wheeled-legged robots - Swiss-Mile announced a $22 million seed round. The round was led by Bezos Expeditions and HongShan, with participation from Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund, Armada Investment, and Linear Capital. Funding supports scaling embodied AI and wheeled-legged robot…
• 2023-04-01 - Company Formation - Swiss-Mile is founded as an ETH Zurich spinout - Company is incorporated in April 2023 Business is formed as a spinout from ETH Zurich's Robotic Systems Lab Original company name is Swiss-Mile

Team

• Marko Bjelonic - Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

Relationships

• Amazon - Acquisition - Amazon acquires delivery robotics startup Rivr

Customers and deployments

• Active City - Milton Keynes - 2026-02-12 - Just Eat Takeaway.com - food delivery - RIVR launched autonomous doorstep delivery in Milton Keynes with Just Eat Takeaway.com, with customers able to select robot delivery in…
• Active Pilot Site - Regensdorf field test - 2025-09-03 - Swiss Post and Migros Online - parcel and grocery delivery field test - RIVR, Swiss Post, and Migros Online began a Regensdorf field test delivering parcels and g…
• Active City - Zürich - 2025-08-20 - Just Eat Takeaway.com - food delivery - RIVR said its robots were delivering real food orders from local restaurants in Zürich with Just Eat Takeaway.com. - source posture: Company Di…
• Active City - Austin - 2025-05-27 - Veho - parcel delivery - RIVR said its wheeled-legged robots were already in action in Austin through a U.S. launch partnership with Veho. - source posture: Company Disclosed

Articles

• 2026-03-23 - AMAZON’S ROBOTICS PUSH IS BROADENING - Recent moves across delivery, warehouse automation, humanoids, and research suggest Amazon is widening its robotics exposure rather than making one concentrated bet. -…
• 2026-03-19 - RIVR is turning doorstep delivery into Amazon's wheeled-legged robot bet - Amazon acquired Zurich-based RIVR in March 2026 after Veho, Swiss Post, Migros Online, and Just Eat pilots showed a last-100-yards…