Amazon aims to revolutionize fast delivery with new 30-minute systemAmazon is revealing a new service offering deliveries in 30 minutes or less for an additional charge. This ultrafast delivery, called Amazo...
12 May, 2026, 06.11 PM IST
Mother's Day Special: How AI, apps are empowering women to manage finances, improve health, build careerWomen are learning to keep pace with the ubiquitous apps and AI, shrugging off dependence on their kids for financial transactions, online ...
04 May, 2026, 06.30 AM IST
Inside AI-led digital storefronts; Lalit Keshre’s big ET Awards winHappy Monday! Digital platforms and brands are building their own AI storefronts. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.
27 Apr, 2026, 07.41 AM IST
Amazon buys Fauna Robotics, maker of the Sprout humanoid robotThe e-commerce giant is already a robotics powerhouse, having boasted of deploying more than 1 million robots across its warehouse operatio...
25 Mar, 2026, 09.55 AM IST
Amazon to wind down its Astro for Business security robotAmazon discontinues Astro for Business, offers $300 credit for replacements. Customers refunded for pre-paid fees as robot stops on Sept. 2...
04 Jul, 2024, 07.08 AM IST
Amazon, iRobot abandon merger in face of EU oppositionAmazon and iRobot have announced the termination of their merger plans due to opposition from EU antitrust regulators. iRobot is implementi...
30 Jan, 2024, 07.48 AM IST
Amazon calls off bid to buy iRobot amid pushback in EuropeAmazon announced in 2022 that it would buy iRobot, maker of the circular-shaped Roomba vacuum, for $1.7 billion in cash. But the value of t...
29 Jan, 2024, 10.28 PM IST
EU regulators say Amazon's iRobot acquisition may harm competitionThe European Commission, the European Union's executive arm and top antitrust enforcer, said it has informed Amazon of its "preliminary vie...
28 Nov, 2023, 08.15 AM IST
Amazon amends iRobot deal to lower offer price by 15%The companies had unveiled the deal in August last year, in what marked the latest effort by the world's largest online retailer to expand ...
25 Jul, 2023, 06.54 PM IST
UK regulator launches probe into Amazon's planned purchase of iRobotThe probe launch by the UK watchdog comes at a time antitrust regulators, including those in the U.S. and the European Union, have become i...
18 Apr, 2023, 05.17 PM IST
Amazon's $1.7B iRobot purchase faces UK antitrust scrutinyAmazon said it's "working cooperatively with the relevant regulators in their review of the merger."
06 Apr, 2023, 05.04 PM IST
US begins antitrust review of Amazon's takeover of vacuum maker iRobotThe US anti-trust body's iRobot review is wide-ranging and would include both head-to-head competition and whether the deal would illegally...
03 Sep, 2022, 09.20 AM IST
Alexa! Start my Roomba: Amazon buys robot vacuum maker iRobot for $1.7 billionAmazon will pay $61 per share, valuing iRobot at a premium of 22% to the stock's last closing price of $49.99.
06 Aug, 2022, 09.19 AM IST
Amazon to develop software for its consumer robots in IndiaThe India centre will help support Amazon's international Robotics division, which launched its first robot Astro last year.
30 May, 2022, 12.53 PM IST
Amazon launches robot to roll around house, Disney resort voice assistantThe home robot is designed to take up tasks such as home monitoring, setting up routines and reminders, and can play music and TV shows whi...
29 Sep, 2021, 01.22 PM IST
An upgraded Echo, Alexa robot: Amazon ramping up things to make life easierAmazon is also planning a high-fidelity version of its music service.
13 Jul, 2019, 06.36 PM IST
Big tech is throwing money and talent at home robotsAlphabet and Huawei join Amazon in the race to build androids, the first of which could debut by 2020.
25 Jul, 2018, 01.01 PM IST