Zoox
Sign in to saveAlso known as Zoox, Inc., Amazon deploys fleet of self-driving robotaxis on California streets, Zoox, Inc. (Foster, CA)
Zoox, Incorporated is an American technology company subsidiary of Amazon developing driverless vehicles that provide mobility as a service. It is headquartered in Foster City, California, and has offices of operations in the San Francisco Bay Area and Seattle. Zoox is a part of the Amazon Devices & Services organization along with other Amazon units like Amazon Lab126, Amazon Alexa, and Amazon Leo.
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Vinony files it under 2014 establishments in California, 2020 mergers and acquisitions and Amazon (company) acquisitions.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- business
- Named after
- Zooxanthellae
- Official name
- Zoox, Inc.
- Country
- United States
- Headquarters
- Foster City
- Parent organization
- Amazon
- Chairperson
- Arthur D. Levinson
- Industry
- robotics
- Official website
- zoox.com
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- inception
- 2014-00-00
- social media followers
- 19100
- product or material produced
- autonomous car
- Commons category
- Zoox (company)
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Zoox, Incorporated is an American technology company subsidiary of Amazon developing driverless vehicles that provide mobility as a service. It is headquartered in Foster City, California, and has offices of operations in the San Francisco Bay Area and Seattle. Zoox is a part of the Amazon Devices & Services organization along with other Amazon units like Amazon Lab126, Amazon Alexa, and Amazon Leo.
== History == thumb|left|Left to right: Jesse Levinson, Tim Kentley Klay, Steve Jurvetson and Mo Islam (2015) Zoox was founded in 2014 by Australian artist-designer Tim Kentley-Klay and Jesse Levinson, son of Apple Incorporated chairman Arthur D. Levinson, who was developing self-driving technology at Stanford University. The name "Zoox" is a reference to Zooxanthellae, a marine organism that, like the Zoox robotaxi, depends on renewable energy and is able to maintain a symbiotic relationship with organisms in its surrounding habitat.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Zoox” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.