Locus Robotics
Locus Robotics acquired Nexera Robotics and the company's NeuraGrasp end effector technology to expand mobile manipulation and picking capabilities.
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Locus Robotics
Locus Robotics acquired Nexera Robotics and the company's NeuraGrasp end effector technology to expand mobile manipulation and picking capabilities.
Locus Robotics announced the acquisition of Nexera Robotics, a Vancouver-based robotics company specializing in advanced robotic grasping.
Locus said that the integration of Nexera’s proprietary NeuraGrasp end-effector technology into the its physical AI platform significantly expands the company’s autonomous mobile manipulation capabilities and broadens what Locus Array can handle across end-to-end fulfillment workflows.
Per the announcement, Nexera Robotics will be wholly owned and operated as part of Locus Robotics. The full Nexera team and leadership will join Locus Robotics to accelerate integration of NeuraGrasp into the Locus Array platform and roadmap. Locus Robotics said that the acquisition strengthens its intellectual property position in mobile manipulation and adds deep AI-driven manipulation and end-effector expertise to the company’s engineering organization.
Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
"The frontier of warehouse robotics today is AI-driven mobile manipulation at enterprise scale,” said Rick Faulk, CEO, Locus Robotics. “Being able to efficiently grasp millions of SKU types with both speed and precision is where the next decade of value gets created. Nexera has built something technically significant in that space, and combining it with Locus Array puts us at the forefront of leveling up mobile manipulation across the industry."
Locus said that advanced mobile manipulation offers the most flexible and scalable path to fully autonomous fulfillment, eliminating the constraints of fixed infrastructure. The company said that realizing that potential requires the ability to handle the full complexity of real inventory, in real warehouse conditions, across millions of SKU types.
NeuraGrasp combines AI-driven grasping intelligence, onboard sensory inputs, computer vision, and a patented soft membrane structure to adapt dynamically to the physical characteristics of each item.
Locus and Nexera said that this enables a single gripper to conform to variations in shape, surface texture, material, porosity and weight, creating reliable grasps across the high-variability inventory found in real warehouse operations.
Developed over five years and refined through six generations of continual improvement, Locus and Nexera said that NeuraGrasp has been validated with thousands of hours and tens of millions of picks, including the broadest SKU testing with commercial partners.
“We built NeuraGrasp to solve the manipulation challenges that have held robotic picking back for years,” said Roy Belak, CEO, Nexera Robotics. “Joining Locus Robotics gives us the platform, scale, and customer base to bring this breakthrough technology into the high-velocity fulfillment environments it was designed for, where speed, reliability, and real-world adaptability matter most.”
Locus said that with Locus Array already setting a new standard for autonomous Robots-to-Goods mobile picking, the addition of NeuraGrasp accelerates that roadmap and extends the platform's reach into SKU categories and manipulation tasks that existing solutions have struggled to address.
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