The object
D'Andrea co-invented Kiva's mobile robotic material-handling system with Mick Mountz and Peter Wurman. His control and robot-design work made the machines reliably lift and move inventory racks, creating the physical warehouse-robot platform later operated as Amazon Robotics.
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What Raffaello did
Led Kiva's systems architecture, robot design, navigation, coordination and learning-based control development.
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Why it matters
The National Inventors Hall of Fame says the Kiva system dramatically advanced e-commerce fulfillment and records Amazon's acquisition and global deployments.
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Living-status check
The IEEE ICRA 2025 program scheduled D’Andrea as a plenary speaker on May 22, 2025 and identified his ETH Zurich and Verity roles.