Investments

Brooks is selling the division to Thomas H. Lee Partners for $3 billion.

The company is ready to scale its solutions into new regions, while continuing to grow the product line and innovation.

Pudu Robotics is advancing restaurant service automation

The Wilmington, Mass.-based company has raised about $305 million since it was founded in 2014.

AmbiOS uses sIm-to-real techniques to reduce model training time and improve grasping success.

The company looks ahead to scaling urban logistics and fleet operations with autonomous driving solutions.

Collaborative robotic provider, Agile Robots, closes a $220M Series C round – to enable the company to extend its product and expand its global market reach.

Perceptual Robotics offers a fully autonomous, wind turbine blade inspection solution using drones. The company is expanding its market.

Investment will enable Zippedi to expand its market into the U.S. to meet the market demand in both the Home Improvement and grocery sectors.

Food automation is a nacent market, and Blendid is an early innovator in kiosk-based food delivery systems.

Elite Robots closes $27M funding to expand the engineering team and open sales into new regions.

Raiser Robotics has developed and automated storage and retrieval system. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Company to accelerate growth and scale production to help farmers address increasing threat from herbicide-resistant weeds

Gatik has raised a total of $114.5 million since it was founded in 2017. It also announced new autonomous box truck operations in Texas.

Berkshire Grey began trading on the NASDAQ today after completing the integration with SPAC Revolution Acceleration Acquisition Corp.

OSARO said it plans to use the funding for market expansion and hiring.

Rapid’s solution is the Rapid Machine Operator (RMO), a cobot specially designed and priced for machine operation.

The Series A supports the launch of the Archimedes Drive, which relies on friction instead of gear teeth to transmit torque.

DroneDeploy said the Rocos acquisition will allow its customers to deploy and coordinate both aerial and ground robots on their job sites.

The Robot Report tracked 36 robotics investments that raised at least $1.14 billion. There also were 9 mergers and acquisitions worth at least $1.58 billion.

Third Wave Automation raises $40M in a series B round to help the company accelerate the development of fork truck autonomy solutions.

This is the second agricultural robotics acquisition by John Deere in the past four years. It acquired Blue River Technology in 2017 for $305 million.