Locus Robotics has announced the acquisition of Nexera Robotics, a Vancouver-based robotics company specializing in advanced robotic grasping. The integration of Nexera’s proprietary NeuraGrasp™ end-effector technology into the Locus Robotics 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.
Advanced mobile manipulation offers the most flexible and scalable path to fully autonomous fulfillment, eliminating the constraints of fixed infrastructure. Realizing that potential requires the ability to handle the full complexity of real inventory, in real warehouse conditions, across millions of SKU types. 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.
“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.”
A Single Gripper for a Broader Range of Real-World Inventory
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. 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, 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.”
The acquisition of Nexera builds on momentum by expanding what Locus Array can autonomously handle and significantly broadening the addressable market for Locus Robotics and its customers.
Acquisition Details
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. The acquisition strengthens Locus Robotics’ intellectual property position in mobile manipulation and adds deep AI-driven manipulation and end-effector expertise to the company’s engineering organization.
Why is Locus Robotics acquiring Nexera Robotics?
Locus Robotics is acquiring Nexera Robotics to bring patented grasping technology and specialized robotic picking expertise into the Locus Array roadmap. Nexera’s NeuraGrasp™ technology significantly expands the range of SKU types Locus Array can pick autonomously, advancing mobile manipulation capabilities and broadening what the platform can handle across end-to-end fulfillment workflows.
What does NeuraGrasp™ do?
NeuraGrasp™ combines AI-driven grasping intelligence, onboard sensory inputs, computer vision, and soft, compliant grasping hardware to help robots adapt dynamically to a wide range of item characteristics. This enables Locus Array to pick a much broader range of items reliably, including products with varying shapes, surfaces, materials, porosity, and weight.
What types of items can Nexera’s technology help Locus Array robots pick?
Nexera’s technology is designed to expand autonomous picking across a broader range of SKU types, including porous textiles, loosely bagged items, perforated polybags, irregular packages, delicate goods, contoured products, small items, and products with inconsistent surfaces or thin packaging features.
When will Locus Array begin using Nexera’s technology?
Locus Robotics will begin integrating Nexera’s NeuraGrasp™ end-effector technology into the Locus Array platform following the acquisition. The technology is expected to become available in the coming months.
