Mergers & Acquisitions News
Latest Mergers & Acquisitions news and analysis — 96 articles tagged Mergers & Acquisitions on The Robotics Media.
- Air Force Names Its First CCA Drones 'Vengeance' And 'Fury', Plans 1,000-Drone Autonomous Fleet By 2032 — — Air Force Secretary Troy Meink used the AFA Air, Space & Cyber Conference on Sept. 14 to officially christen General Atomics' FQ-42A 'Vengeance' and 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...
- Salesforce In Talks To Buy AI Customer-Research Startup Listen Labs For ~$2B — — Salesforce is in advanced talks to acquire Listen Labs, an AI startup that runs customer research through autonomous interviews, for roughly $2 billio...
- Meta Buys Sweden's Stilla.ai To Power Its Business Agent Across WhatsApp And Instagram — — Meta has acquired eight-month-old Stockholm startup Stilla.ai to accelerate the Meta Business Agent, its AI chatbot now serving more than one million...
- 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.
- Lynk and Omnispace Merger Closes, Launches Elveo Mobile D2D Operator — — Lynk Global and Omnispace closed their merger and launched Elveo Mobile, a Washington-based direct-to-device satellite operator with SES as a strategi...
- 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...
- Adobe Acquires Indian Agentic AI Startup Rilo To Speed Up Marketer Automation — — Adobe has bought Bengaluru-based Rilo, an agentic AI startup building outcome-focused go-to-market workflows for enterprise marketers, its second Indi...
- Palo Alto Networks Buys AI Agent Startup Console To Automate SOC Operations — — Cortex gets an AI-native agent orchestration layer as Palo Alto Networks acquires Console to move SOC work from copilots to operators.
- Enovis Lines Up €155M eCential Robotics Deal To Enter Orthopedic Surgical Robotics — — Dallas-based Enovis has entered a binding offer to buy Grenoble's eCential Robotics for an upfront €155 million enterprise value, adding robotic autom...
- NEURA Robotics Buys ADLATUS To Drop Physical AI Into Autonomous Cleaning — — The 100% acquisition adds cleaning robots to NEURA's mobile fleet and folds ADLATUS' Ulm-based systems into the Neuraverse.
- IBM Closes HRL Laboratories Buy To Add Silicon-Spin Qubits To Quantum Stack — — IBM has closed its acquisition of HRL Laboratories, adding silicon-spin qubit expertise, quantum sensing and advanced cryogenics to a roadmap that alr...
- Shell Exits Home Battery Market, Sells sonnen To Malta-Based TIVEN — — Shell has completed the sale of Bavarian home-battery and virtual power plant pioneer sonnen to Malta family office TIVEN after seven years, closing o...
- Volato Signs $500M AI Infrastructure Merger With Ohio's Alignment Engine — — Volato Group (NYSE American: SOAR) will merge with Alignment Engine in a $500M deal that pivots the company into AI infrastructure and unlocks 154MW o...
- Anthropic Previews MHS Standard To Let Claude Agents Run Labs And Factories — — Anthropic and HHMI have previewed the Model Hardware Standard, a unified interface that lets Claude and other AI agents drive microscopes, robot arms...
- Defiance Launches CROB, First US-Listed ETF For China's Humanoid Robotics Ecosystem — — Defiance ETFs debuted CROB on Nasdaq, the first US-listed ETF dedicated to China's humanoid robotics ecosystem, tracking the Solactive China Humanoid...
- Francisco Partners To Take Weave Private In $650M Healthcare AI Buyout — — Francisco Partners has agreed to acquire NYSE-listed Weave Communications for $650 million at $7.40 per share, a 34% premium, to accelerate its AI-pow...