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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.

2 sourcesSymboticcellumationWalmartFleet Orchestration Software
6 days ago
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Schneider Electric agrees to buy PTC for $205 a share, a $23.7B bet on design-to-factory software

PTC and Schneider Electric said in a joint announcement on Oct 5 that Schneider will acquire PTC for $205 per share in cash, valuing its equity at about $22.6 billion and the enterprise at $23.7 billion, a 42.3% premium to PTC's last close. The deal needs PTC shareholder and regulatory approval and is expected to close by the third quarter of 2027; Schneider plans to fund it with a committed bridge from Morgan Stanley and Société Générale, about EUR5 billion to EUR6 billion of new equity and EUR16 billion to EUR17 billion of new debt. Interact Analysis argued in a commentary carried by The Robot Report that PTC's CAD, PLM and service software gives Schneider a digital thread from design to operations to rival Siemens, provided it can integrate the data. At $23.7 billion it is almost three times the roughly $8.2 billion AMD agreed to pay for World Labs, the largest physical-AI deal MEKAWIRE covered last month.

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20 days ago
M&AUS

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.

12 sourcesQualcommPickNik RoboticsNeura RoboticsROS 2Edge AI Compute
Aug 24, 2026
M&ADE

NEURA Robotics spends its Series C on Europe's robot assets, buying Bosch Rexroth's ACTIVE Shuttle and cleaning-robot maker ADLATUS

Two months after announcing a Series C of up to $1.4 billion, Germany's NEURA Robotics agreed to take over Bosch Rexroth's ACTIVE Shuttle transport-robot business on August 13, 2026 and bought all of Ulm-based ADLATUS Robotics on August 24. Together with a compute-module deal with Italy's SECO and a new training centre at RWTH Aachen, the moves show NEURA assembling a European physical-AI group by acquisition rather than only by in-house development.

6 sourcesNeura RoboticsNVIDIAANYboticsFleet Orchestration SoftwareEdge AI Compute
Jul 2, 2026
M&ACA

Kraken Robotics closes C$615 million Covelya deal and lifts its 2026 revenue outlook to as much as C$320 million

Kraken Robotics completed its acquisition of UK-based Covelya Group, the parent of Sonardyne, EIVA, Forcys, Voyis and Chelsea Technologies, on July 2, 2026 for about C$615 million in cash and shares. The Canadian sonar and subsea battery maker raised its 2026 revenue guidance to C$290 million to C$320 million from C$165 million to C$175 million.

7 sourcesKraken RoboticsCovelya GroupSaronic TechnologiesBattery SystemsLiDAR
Jun 24, 2026
M&AUS

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.

2 sourcesAgility RoboticsFigure AIApptronikFleet Orchestration SoftwareElectric Actuators
Apr 24, 2026
M&ACN

UBTech lifts its stake in Shenzhen-listed Fenglong to 43% as its RMB1.67 billion move into manufacturing closes

UBTech Robotics said on April 24 that it had completed the transfer of shares tendered in its partial offer for Zhejiang Fenglong Electric, taking its holding to 93,979,906 A shares, about 43.01% of the company. The Hong Kong-listed humanoid maker paid RMB17.72 a share in both steps of a deal worth up to RMB1.67 billion and later amended terms to nominate seven of eight Fenglong directors.

4 sourcesUBTECH RoboticsZhejiang Fenglong ElectricUnitree RoboticsElectric ActuatorsHydraulic Actuators
Apr 15, 2026
M&AUS

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.

2 sourcesSkild AIZebra TechnologiesNVIDIARobot Foundation ModelsFleet Orchestration Software
Mar 25, 2026
M&AUS

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.

8 sourcesFauna RoboticsAmazonSundayTeleoperationEdge AI Compute
Mar 11, 2026
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EU clears SoftBank's $5.4 billion ABB Robotics deal, a price of 17 times EBITDA to give its robot AI a body

The European Commission cleared SoftBank Group's purchase of ABB's robotics division, valued at USD 5.375 billion, under its simplified procedure on 11 March 2026. The price equals 17.2 times the division's 2024 EBITDA, while the floor valuation of Skild AI, whose round SoftBank led in January, is 2.6 times as high. Approvals in China and the United States remain, and both companies expect closing in mid-to-late 2026.

4 sourcesSoftBank GroupABBSkild AIRobot Foundation Models
Jan 20, 2026
M&AUS

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.

6 sourcesServe RoboticsDiligent RoboticsBear RoboticsFleet Orchestration SoftwareEdge AI Compute
Jan 6, 2026
M&AIL

Mobileye pays $900 million for Mentee Robotics, the humanoid start-up chaired by its own chief executive

Mobileye agreed on 5 January 2026 to buy Israeli humanoid developer Mentee Robotics for $900 million in cash and stock and closed the deal on 3 February. Its filings show chief executive Amnon Shashua, Mentee's chairman and co-founder, receives about $341 million and chief technology officer Shai Shalev-Shwartz about $118 million, with 90% of the founders' stock released only after two and four years. Mentee targets autonomous customer pilots in 2026 and series production in 2028.

6 sourcesMentee RoboticsMobileyeSkild AISim-to-Real TransferRL
Dec 15, 2025
M&AUS

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.

5 sourcesiRobotShenzhen PICEA RoboticsAmazon
Oct 30, 2025
M&ACN

AgiBot takes 63.6% of STAR Market-listed Swancor after tender offer, giving the humanoid maker a listed platform for about RMB2 billion

AgiBot's acquisition vehicle Shanghai Zhiyuan Hengyue and a concert party now hold 63.6232% of Swancor Advanced Materials after holders tendered 135,663,336 shares at RMB7.78 in a partial offer that closed on 28 October 2025, Swancor disclosed on 30 October. With share transfers registered in September, the stake cost about RMB2.0 billion, and the filings say the buyer has no explicit plan to change Swancor's business within 12 months.

6 sourcesAgiBotSwancor Advanced MaterialsUnitree RoboticsRobot Foundation Models
Oct 8, 2025
M&AJP

SoftBank agrees to buy ABB's robotics division for $5.375 billion, killing the planned spin-off at 17 times EBITDA

SoftBank Group will acquire ABB Robotics for an enterprise value of US$5.375 billion, the two companies said on 8 October 2025, replacing ABB's plan to list the unit separately in 2026. The division had 2024 revenue of US$2.279 billion and about 7,000 employees, and the deal needs approval in the EU, China and the US before an expected close in mid-to-late 2026.

5 sourcesSoftBank GroupABB RoboticsABBRobot Foundation ModelsFleet Orchestration Software
Jul 28, 2025
M&AKR

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%.

6 sourcesDoosan RoboticsONExiaSamsung Electronics
Apr 14, 2025
M&AFR

Hugging Face buys Bordeaux humanoid maker Pollen Robotics and starts selling its $70,000 open-source Reachy 2

Hugging Face said on 14 April 2025 that it had acquired Pollen Robotics, the French maker of the Reachy humanoid robots, its fifth acquisition. It will sell Pollen's Reachy 2 at US$70,000 as its first robot and tie the hardware to its open-source LeRobot software; the price and terms of the deal were not disclosed.

4 sourcesHugging FacePollen RoboticsNVIDIATeleoperationImitation Learning
Jan 24, 2025
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LG Electronics takes 51% of Bear Robotics and hands it the CLOi service robot business, four weeks after Samsung moved on Rainbow

LG Electronics' board voted on 22 January 2025 to exercise a call option for another 30% of Silicon Valley delivery robot maker Bear Robotics, lifting its stake to 51% and making the start-up a subsidiary. LG will move its CLOi commercial robot unit under Bear and keep chief executive John Ha in charge, but has not said what it paid for the second tranche.

4 sourcesLG ElectronicsBear RoboticsSamsung ElectronicsFleet Orchestration SoftwareLiDAR
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.

8 sourcesSymboticWalmartFleet Orchestration Software