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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.

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Qualcomm agrees to buy PickNik, steward of open-source MoveIt, to pull robot motion software onto its Dragonwing chips

Qualcomm Technologies said on 23 September 2026 it had agreed to acquire PickNik Inc., the Boulder, Colorado company behind the MoveIt manipulation framework and its commercial MoveIt Pro platform. Terms were not disclosed. Qualcomm pledged to keep MoveIt 1 and MoveIt 2 open source and hardware agnostic while integrating PickNik's software more tightly with its Dragonwing robotics processors and Arduino boards.

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Jun 24, 2026
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Agility Robotics agrees to go public through Churchill Capital XI at a $2.5 billion pre-money value, with Foxconn leading a $200 million PIPE

Agility Robotics, maker of the Digit humanoid, signed a definitive agreement on June 24, 2026 to merge with the blank-check company Churchill Capital Corp XI in a deal that values Agility at $2.5 billion before the money comes in. The transaction is expected to bring in more than $620 million of gross proceeds, including about $200 million from a PIPE led by Foxconn, and the combined company plans to trade on Nasdaq as AGLT.

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Apr 15, 2026
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Skild AI buys Zebra's former Fetch Robotics unit for $20 million, five years after Zebra paid $301 million for it

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.

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Mar 25, 2026
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Amazon buys Fauna Robotics, maker of the 107 cm Sprout humanoid, less than two months after the robot's launch

Fauna Robotics said on 24 March 2026 that it had joined Amazon and would operate as an Amazon company, keeping its Sprout humanoid on sale and its customers supported; no terms were disclosed. The deal gives the operator of more than 1 million warehouse robots a small, safety-first humanoid used by Disney, Boston Dynamics, NYU and UC San Diego, and a team drawn from Google DeepMind and CTRL-labs.

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Jan 20, 2026
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Serve Robotics buys hospital robot maker Diligent for $29 million in stock, taking its sidewalk autonomy indoors

Serve Robotics agreed on January 19, 2026 to acquire Diligent Robotics, maker of the Moxi hospital delivery robot, for Serve common stock valued at $29.0 million including a potential $5.3 million earnout, and closed the deal on January 27. SEC filings show that a $19.0 million cash payment for Diligent's debt cut the stock actually issued at closing to 32,835 shares.

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Dec 15, 2025
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iRobot files for Chapter 11 as Chinese supplier Picea takes 100% of the Roomba maker

iRobot filed for Chapter 11 in Delaware on December 14, 2025 under a restructuring support agreement that gives Shenzhen PICEA Robotics, its secured lender and primary contract manufacturer, all of the reorganized equity. Picea held $190.7 million of loan claims bought from Carlyle affiliates plus $161.5 million of manufacturing receivables, while iRobot shareholders receive nothing and Nasdaq trading was set to be suspended on December 22.

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Jan 16, 2025
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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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