A decade ago, Mick Mountz was the logistics guy at dot-com-era e-grocery Webvan. He helped outfit warehouses with high-tech, 4.5 mile-long mazes of conveyor belts and carousels meant to sort, box, and deliver goods. The efficiency would be awesome; Webvan would make billions in the low-margin grocery business. That didn't happen. After Mountz quit in 2000 and the startup went bust the following year, he realized what was missing from his vision of automated warehouses: robots. He founded Kiva Systems in 2003.
A decade ago, Mick Mountz was the logistics guy at dot-com-era e-grocery Webvan. He helped outfit warehouses with high-tech, 4.5 mile-long mazes of conveyor belts and carousels meant to sort, box, and deliver goods. The efficiency would be awesome; Webvan would make billions in the low-margin grocery business. That didn't happen. After Mountz quit in 2000 and the startup went bust the following year, he realized what was missing from his vision of automated warehouses: robots. He founded Kiva Systems in 2003.
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