{"id":100363,"date":"2020-01-01T12:44:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T20:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/the-10-largest-robotics-mergers-and-acquisitions-of-2019"},"modified":"2020-01-01T12:44:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T20:44:28","slug":"the-10-largest-robotics-mergers-and-acquisitions-of-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/the-10-largest-robotics-mergers-and-acquisitions-of-2019","title":{"rendered":"The 10 largest robotics mergers and acquisitions of 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-10-largest-robotics-mergers-and-acquisitions-of-2019.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>MDA created the Canadarm robotic manipulator. | Credit: MDA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 2019, <em>The Robot Report<\/em> tracked 68 mergers and acquisitions for companies in the robotics industry, as of press time. This included <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/10-notable-robotics-acquisitions-of-the-first-half\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">30 mergers and acquisitions through the first half of the year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In many cases, the companies involved did not disclose the terms of their deal. For example, self-driving car maker Waymo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/waymo-uk-simulation-startup-latent-logic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recently acquired<\/a> U.K.-based startup Latent Logic, but it did not reveal the purchase price. So the list consists only of mergers and acquisitions for which we know the terms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MDA created the Canadarm robotic manipulator. | Credit: MDA In 2019, The Robot Report tracked 68 mergers and acquisitions for companies in the robotics industry, as of press time. This included 30 mergers and acquisitions through the first half of the year. In many cases, the companies involved did not disclose the terms of their [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}