Amazon.com Inc. has acquired a Boulder, Colorado-based robotics startup called Canvas Technology that builds autonomous vehicles for industrial purposes. More specifically, Canvas makes autonomous ...

Boulder-based Canvas Technology, which makes robotic industrial carts, raised $15 million from investors to expand its autonomous technology.

Amazon confirmed its purchase of Colorado-based robotics startup Canvas Technology. Canvas specializes in autonomous technology — specifically autonomous carts.

Canvas wants to smash this assumption of expensive, inflexible, factories by replacing infrastructure with autonomous vehicles designed to shuffle goods around factory floors.