M&A News
Mergers, acquisitions, and corporate buyouts in the robotics and technology industry.
- Iridium Stockholders Approve $8B Rocket Lab Acquisition With 99.6% Vote — — Iridium stockholders overwhelmingly cleared Rocket Lab's $8 billion cash-and-stock takeover with 99.6% of votes cast in favor, keeping the deal on tra...
- Energy Vault Buys Goshe's 2.3 GW US BESS Pipeline, Adds $40M S2G Facility — — Energy Vault folds Goshe's 15-project US battery pipeline into Asset Vault, gaining 350 MW ready-to-build with a $40M S2G credit facility.
- ESR To Buy Aquila Clean Energy APAC's 1.6 GW Renewables And Storage Book — — Singapore-based real asset manager ESR agreed on September 25, 2026 to acquire 100% of Aquila Clean Energy APAC and its 1.6 GW pipeline of Asia-Pacifi...
- Databricks Buys Row Zero To Wire Live Spreadsheets Into Genie — — Databricks acquired Seattle-based Row Zero on September 24, 2026 to put a warehouse-scale spreadsheet inside Genie, Unity Catalog and Unity Gateway.
- LiveKit Buys Loophole Labs To Wire Substrate Under Its AI Agents — — LiveKit is bringing the Substrate hypervisor and Architect Kubernetes team in-house to give voice, video and physical AI agents live-migration and spo...
- Cognex Buys RealSense For $500M In All-Cash Perception Deal — — Cognex is paying $500M in cash for depth-camera specialist RealSense, packaging up to $106.5M in retention to hold the Intel-spinout team through a Q4...
- Qualcomm Buys PickNik Robotics To Own The Physical-AI Manipulation Stack — — Qualcomm is acquiring MoveIt developer PickNik Robotics to bolt an open-source manipulation stack onto its Dragonwing physical-AI platform.
- Winbond Buys Infineon's NOR Flash And F-RAM Unit For $1.12B, Revives Spansion — — Winbond will pay $1.12B in cash for Infineon's NOR flash and F-RAM business, reviving the Spansion brand and pushing its global NOR share past 30%.
- Palo Alto Networks Buys AI-Native ITSM Startup Console For ~$500M — — Palo Alto Networks acquired Console, a two-year-old AI-native IT service management startup, for a reported $500M to bolt agent orchestration into Cor...
- SoftBank Agrees To Acquire Robotics And AI Institute, Marc Raibert's Physical-AI Research Lab — — SoftBank Group has agreed to acquire RAI Institute, the Cambridge-based physical-AI research organisation founded by Marc Raibert, in a CFIUS-bound de...
- Cohere and Aleph Alpha Sign Definitive Merger Agreement at ~$20B Valuation — — Cohere and Aleph Alpha have signed a definitive combination agreement, formalizing an April deal and creating a roughly $20B transatlantic sovereign-A...
- Analog Devices To Buy Alif Semiconductor For $1.35B In Push To Own Edge-AI 'Physical Intelligence' — — ADI has struck a $1.35 billion all-cash deal for Pleasanton-based Alif Semiconductor, plus up to $200M contingent — folding AI-native microcontrollers...
- HMS Networks Launches Friendly Takeover Bid for Spain's ROBOT S.A. — — Sweden's HMS Networks launched a cash delisting offer for all shares of Barcelona-listed ROBOT S.A. on September 11, adding hotel-focused building aut...
- Swarmer Buys Ukraine's Ratel Robotics In $224M UGV Consolidation — — Nasdaq-listed drone-autonomy firm Swarmer will pay up to $224M in cash and stock for Ratel Robotics, adding Ukraine's largest fielded UGV maker to Eri...
- First Hydrogen Grabs 60% Of Exodus Actuation, Launches First Humanoid Subsidiary — — TSX-V-listed First Hydrogen signed a definitive agreement on September 9, 2026 to acquire 60% of Exodus Actuation Solutions (RoboticsCo) for 2M shares...
- Ecobat Completes Sale Of Lithium Recycling Business, Refocuses On Lead — — Ecobat has closed the sale of its Casa Grande, Arizona lithium recycling operations, exiting lithium entirely to focus on North American lead recyclin...
- Flex To Acquire EPC Power For $4.4B In Bet On Utility-Scale Battery Inverters — — Contract-manufacturing giant Flex has agreed to buy California-based grid-scale inverter maker EPC Power for approximately $4.4 billion, deepening its...
- SoftBank In Talks For Majority Stake In 1X At $6B, Well Below 1X's $10B Ask — — SoftBank is negotiating a majority stake in OpenAI-backed humanoid startup 1X Technologies at a roughly $6 billion valuation, The Information reports.
- GoPro Merges With Starman Optical in $285M AI Infrastructure Pivot — — GoPro will merge with U.S. optical-photonics company Starman Optical in a $285M all-cash deal, wiping out its debt and pivoting the action-camera bran...
- Enovis Makes Binding €176M Offer To Acquire Surgical Robotics Firm eCential Robotics — — Enovis will pay approximately €176M in cash plus up to €35M in earn-outs for Grenoble-based eCential Robotics, adding an open robotic surgery platform...