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Agility Robotics, “Agility,” a humanoid robotics and physical AI company, and Churchill Capital Corp XI, “Churchill, a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, announced they have entered into a definitive business combination agreement. According to Agility and Churchill, upon closing of the transaction, the combined company is expected to operate as Agility and be listed on a major North American…
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BOSTON - Robotics Invest 2026, the fourth annual robotics investment summit hosted by Cybernetix Ventures, kicked off Robotics Tech Week 2026 in Boston. The two-day event featured over 300 investors, entrepreneurs and executives in the robotics sector for keynotes, panels, roundtables and networking opportunities to discuss the ongoing evolution of funding and investment in this space. “Building the next wave…
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…a structural gap in the robotics industry: early-stage robotics companies lacked investors with the experience to help build and scale these businesses. Without capital that understands deployment cycles, hardware-software complexity, and the difference between a demo and a deployable product, promising companies risked stalling out before they reached the factories, hospitals, and warehouses that needed them. With decades of combined…
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The state of investment and funding in the robotics industry in 2026
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…a new category in logistics: robotic fulfillment-as-a-service. The company said that it will have a total of six physical AI sites spanning six million square feet of automated fulfillment capacity nationwide, designed to support retail, wholesale and consumer goods companies. Exol will showcase its platform at MODEX 2026. Exol manages ongoing supply chain pressures Backed by a $7.5 billion commitment…
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…2025 marked another milestone for robotics and automation deals, with major acquisitions, blockbuster funding rounds and global investments driving the industry’s expansion. Take a look at the top 10 most-read financial news on Robotics 24/7 from 2025, and evaluate how robotics and automation organizations around the world are navigating changing economies and industrial challenges. 2025 robotics and automation highlights Click…
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…one of the world’s largest robotics and automation companies, ABB’s breadth of technologies encompasses countless industries and geographies. Specifically, ABB’s lengthy history in the automotive manufacturing industry has driven (pun intended) countless vehicles off assembly lines around the world. Now, as ABB approaches its fifth decade and the soon-to-be divestment of its Robotics division to SoftBank, there’s always something going…
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…an agreement to divest its Robotics division to SoftBank Group for an enterprise value of $5.375 billion. The move represents a significant change from an announcement in early 2025, when ABB intended to spin off the Robotics division as a separately listed company. The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals and further customary closing conditions and is expected to close…
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…revenue multiple in 2022, with SoftBank acquiring a $2.2 billion stake that valued the company at $7 billion. Similarly, Zebra Technologies acquired Fetch Robotics for $290 million (95% stake) in 2021. Based on Fetch’s “run-rate sales of approximately $10 million” at the time of the acquisition, IA said this would imply a staggering 31x revenue multiple. However, Interact Analysis said…
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…such as OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank. Companies to form joint venture, Stargate In conjunction with the major investment news, companies including OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank will form a joint venture called Stargate. Masayoshi Son, CEO of Softbank, Larry Ellison, CTO of Oracle and Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI were at the White House on January 21 as part of the…
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AI robotics startup RoboForce recently announced it has raised $10 million early stage funding, with investment and guidance from Nobel Laureate Myron Scholes and Softbank VC co-founder Gary Rieschel. The RoboForce development team come from institutions including Carnegie Mellon University, Michigan Robotics, Amazon Robotics, Tesla, Google, Waymo, Apple, and Microsoft. With this funding, RoboForce is preparing to deploy its RF-04…
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SoftBank Robotics America recently announced a strategic partnership with Formant, a leading robot management system. The partnership will drive deeper integration across the portfolio of solutions SoftBank Robotics offers to help businesses transform the way they get work done. SoftBank chose Formant as a strategic technology partner to help lay the foundation for integrating advanced business intelligence, additional software services…
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…much negativity surrounding AI and robotics, RobotLAB sheds light on the positive aspects and how bots like Pepper can further advance our ways and quality of life,” she added. “There is beauty in technological innovations.” Integrator deploys 10,000+ robots “As robotics and AI are central to critical business conversations across countless industries, we are proud to be recognized by Daytime…
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…of the excitement in warehouse robotics is about what the systems can do next, such as trailer unloading, parcel piece picking, or autonomous case handling. But there is also plenty of enthusiasm about the robotics-as-a-service, or RaaS, model for adopting automation. Like the established software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, RaaS bundles the costs of running a system into a tidy regular fee.…
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…of the excitement in warehouse robotics is about what robots will be able to do next, like trailer unloading, or parcel piece picking, or autonomous case handling. But plenty of enthusiasm is out there about the increasingly popular means of acquiring them: robotics-as-a-service (RaaS). Like the established software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, RaaS bundles the costs of running a solution into a…
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