Amazon Lab126[4] (sometimes known as Lab126) is an American research and development and computer hardware company owned by Amazon.com.
[5] It was founded in 2004 by Gregg Zehr,[6] previously Vice President of Hardware Engineering at Palm, and is based in Sunnyvale, California.
[7] It is widely known for developing Amazon's Kindle line of e-readers and tablets.
[8][9][10] Lab126's name derives from the arrow in Amazon's logo, which points from A to Z—the 1st and 26th letters in the English language alphabet.
[17][18] In 2021, Lab126 announced Amazon Astro, a brand of domestic robots developed in house.