Walmart
US retailer and Symbotic's largest customer and shareholder
- Symbotic buys Bremen's cellumation for cash to put a software-steered sorting floor inside its warehouse systems
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.
Mentioned - Doosan Robotics pays $27.2 million for 89.59% of Pennsylvania integrator ONExia to sell US packaging cells built around its arms
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%.
Mentioned - Symbotic buys Walmart's robotics unit for $200 million and wins a 400-system store pickup order backed by $520 million in Walmart development fees
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.
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