Symbotic

Symbotic said in a press release on Oct 13 that it has acquired cellumation, the Bremen company behind the celluveyor sorting platform, in an all-cash deal whose price it did not disclose. The celluveyor will be sold on its own to customers and other integrators and also built into Symbotic's systems, giving the Walmart-anchored automation group a European team and a second product line.

Shipments of professional service robots rose 24% to almost 250,000 units in 2025, led by 117,500 transport and logistics robots, the International Federation of Robotics said on 30 September 2026. The IFR counted about 7,000 full-size humanoids sold worldwide and 174 humanoid makers, more than half of them in China, and said most humanoid uses still rely on teleoperation.

Destro AI, a Brooklyn startup founded in 2026, said on 29 September 2026 it raised an $8 million seed round co-led by Base10 Partners and Bonfire Ventures. Its software assigns tasks across mixed robot fleets and is already live with Yusen Logistics (Americas).

Symbotic reported revenue of $720.8 million for its fiscal third quarter ended June 27, 2026, up 22% from a year earlier, and net income of $55 million against a $21 million loss. The warehouse robotics maker guided fourth-quarter revenue to $760 million to $780 million and adjusted EBITDA to $100 million to $105 million.

Amazon unveiled a next-generation version of its Proteus autonomous mobile robot that employees can direct in natural language, at its Delivering the Future event in London on June 4, 2026. The company said it will invest more than €10 billion over the coming years to expand and modernize its European fulfillment network, deploy the new Proteus in Europe in the first half of 2027, expand its STARK tote-handling system to 15 European sites by 2027 and add 25,000 fulfillment jobs in Europe.

Symbotic reported fiscal second-quarter 2026 revenue of $676.5 million, up 23%, and net income of $9.4 million against a loss a year earlier, in results filed with the SEC on May 6, 2026. Adjusted EBITDA more than doubled to $77.8 million, systems in deployment rose to 70 from 52 a quarter earlier, and the company guided third-quarter revenue to $700 million to $720 million.

AutoStore reported first-quarter 2026 revenue of $165.8 million on April 23, 2026, up 92.9% from an unusually weak quarter a year earlier, with order intake up 27.0% to $179.4 million. Adjusted EBITDA more than tripled to $72.9 million, but the Norwegian cube storage maker warned that uncertainty over global trade could make customers more cautious and limit near-term visibility.

Skild AI said on April 15, 2026 that it had acquired the robotics division of Zebra Technologies, the business Zebra bought as Fetch Robotics in 2021. Zebra's quarterly SEC filing shows the sale closed on March 27 for $20 million in cash, escrow and a minority stake in Skild, against the $301 million Zebra recorded when it bought Fetch.

Hong Kong-listed warehouse robot maker Geek+ reported 2025 revenue of RMB3.17 billion, up 31.6%, and its first full-year adjusted net profit of RMB43.8 million, while its IFRS loss narrowed to RMB10.4 million. The United States became its largest single market and new orders rose 31.7% to RMB4.14 billion as the company pushes a warehouse foundation model and a wheeled humanoid toward production.

Ocado Group's technology unit lifted revenue 13% to £561.2 million and its EBITDA margin to 25% in the year to November 2025, but Kroger closed three US fulfilment centres in January and paid £261 million in closure fees. The British automation group guided technology revenue down to about £500 million for FY26, plans to cut about £150 million of costs with significant job losses, and expects to turn cash flow positive in the second half.

AutoStore said fourth-quarter 2025 revenue rose 9.0% to $179.7 million and order intake jumped 35.1% to $194.2 million, both company records. Full-year revenue still fell 10.4% to $538.6 million and net income dropped 40.1%, as the Norwegian cube storage maker absorbed longer customer decision cycles, restructuring and a robot write-down.

Symbotic reported fiscal first-quarter revenue of $629.9 million on 4 February 2026, up 29% from a year earlier, with net income of $13.4 million and adjusted EBITDA of $66.9 million. Its backlog stood at $22.3 billion and it guided second-quarter revenue to $650 million to $670 million. Walmart accounted for 85.6% of revenue, and a change in stock-compensation accounting added $9.3 million to profit.

Mytra, the material-handling robotics company led by former Tesla Bot chief Chris Walti, raised a $120 million Series C led by Avenir Growth, with cold-storage operator Lineage and Ryder's venture arm among strategic backers. The company says it has signed a deployment 60 times the size of its biggest earlier installation and now serves a Fortune 100 food company and a Fortune 500 industrial distributor.

Doosan Robotics agreed on 28 July 2025 to buy 89.59% of ONExia, an Exton, Pennsylvania robot integrator, for a final KRW 37.41 billion (USD 27.19 million) in cash, closing on 17 September 2025. ONExia has since absorbed Doosan's US sales arm, won Haleon packaging contracts and swung to a loss as the merged unit, while Doosan raised its stake to 94.12%.

Beijing Geekplus Technology began trading in Hong Kong on July 9, 2025 under code 2590 after selling 161,405,800 H shares at HK$16.80, raising gross proceeds of HK$2,711.62 million. The retail tranche was subscribed 133.62 times and the international book 30.17 times, while four cornerstone investors led by Xiong'an Intelligent Robotics took about 26% of the deal.

Amazon said on 1 July 2025 that it had delivered its one millionth robot, to a fulfillment centre in Japan, for a fleet that now works across more than 300 facilities worldwide. It also introduced DeepFleet, a generative AI foundation model built with AWS tools that coordinates robot traffic and, by Amazon's account, improves the fleet's travel time by 10%.

Symbotic agreed on January 15, 2025 to buy Walmart's Advanced Systems and Robotics business for $200 million in cash, plus two contingent payments of $175 million each tied to Walmart's Accelerated Pickup and Delivery (APD) program. Walmart committed to buy 400 APD systems for its stores, subject to performance metrics, and to pay Symbotic $520 million in development fees, a package Symbotic said could add more than $5 billion to its backlog. The deal closed on January 27, 2025.