Mergers & Acquisitions

Cowen’s Peter Finn on the state of investment into the robotics industry and the impact of inflation, higher interest rates, and other issues.

Amazon has built a vast robotics ecosystem through acquisitions, investments, and internally developed products.

If this deal goes through, iRobot would be Amazon’s fourth most-expensive acquisition ever.

Accenture said the acquisition will enable it to offer automated production lines that leverage the cloud, data and AI.

Ron Tavlin allegedly informed a friend about Medtronic’s impending acquisition announcement of Mazor Robotics in 2018.

American Robotics, a fully-owned subsidiary of Ondas Holdings, announced it signed a term sheet to acquire Airobotics.

The acquisition could help accelerate deployments of both public and private 5G networks, which could benefit many technologies, including robotics.

Symbotic made its debut on the NASDAQ today under ticker symbol “SYM” after completing its business combination with SVF Investment Corp. 3.

Founded in 2017, iFollow makes three AMRs that can transport 300 kg, 600 kg and 1,000 kg payloads.

Myrmex acquisition could enable faster rollout of AFL across Ocado Group’s global CFC footprint, as well as open up new opportunities for the development of bespoke automation solutions for the Ocado Smart Platform.

The details of the deal were not disclosed, and the transaction is still subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals.

Deep Trekker creates ROVs that are used for underwater inspection and tasks in a variety of industries, including aquaculture.

Five’s development and testing platform for software used in AVs will be merged with Bosch’s software engineering environment. 

The combined company will offer an extended product portfolio to target a much broader spectrum of customers across the commercial and defense sectors.

Two of Waypoint Robotics’ heavy payload AMRs are being rebranded to join a new line of Locus Robotics’ LocusBots.

Element Logic plans to leverage SDI’s eight U.S. locations and five Latin American locations and make SDI an AutoStore integrator.

Bosch said the acquisition enables it to offer one-stop solutions, especially for the consumer goods and mobility industry including battery production as well as for the semiconductor production.

Ondas subsidiary American Robotics will leverage Ardenna’s analytics software to accelerate growth within the rail industry.

The acquisition of Matrox Imaging will add advanced hardware-agnostic cameras and interoperability software capabilities to Zebra’s portfolio.

With the acquisition, Zoox brings Strio’s co-founder and CEO Ruijie He on as director of perception, along with other top engineers.

Atlatec creates high-resolution 3D maps for Level 3 and 4 autonomous driving.

Wauseon Machine said the acquisition will double the size of its automation business overnight.