Amazon Robotics: Former Amazon Robotics execs raise $15M for Waltham robotics startup

When Amazon.com Inc. acquired North Reading-based Kiva Systems Inc. in 2012 for $775 million, it created a void in the warehouse robotics industry that Massachusetts startups have rushed to fill. Of those startups, Waltham-based 6 River Systems Inc. has as strong a claim as any to be Kiva's direct descendent, since two of its three founders used to be Kiva executives. The two-year-old startup on Wednesday announced a $15 million investment led by Silicon Valley-based Norwest Venture Partners. Former...