(credit: Cronologics)

The next version of Android Wear won’t come out until early 2017, but Google is still doing what it can to improve its wearable OS in the meantime. The company just acquired Cronologics, a smartwatch OS startup that created the Amazon Alexa-equipped CoWatch. According to an announcement on Cronologics’ website, those at the company will join the Android Wear team at Google to “help grow the portfolio of watches” running the system.

“We see strong alignment with Android Wear’s mission and look forward to working with our new colleagues at Google to continue pushing the frontier of wearable technology and smartwatches with Android Wear 2.0 and beyond,” Cronologics said in the announcement.

Cronologics dates to 2014 when Lan Roche, Leor Stern, and John Lagerling started the company; all three had previously worked at Google. Cronologics’ first device was the CoWatch, which was billed as the first smartwatch to incorporate Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant. CoWatch users could speak to the device on their wrist, asking it to do things like call an Uber, order pizza, and a number of other things you can do using Alexa on an Amazon device like the Echo. As of today, the CoWatch Indiegogo campaign has raised nearly $300,000—but with the company now under the Google umbrella, the fate of the CoWatch is up in the air.