Locus Robotics, the leader in Flexibility-First Warehouse Automation, 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. Realising 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.
Rick Faulk, CEO, Locus Robotics, said: “The frontier of warehouse robotics today is AI-driven mobile manipulation at enterprise scale. 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."
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.
Roy Belak, CEO, Nexera Robotics, said: “We built NeuraGrasp to solve the manipulation challenges that have held robotic picking back for years. 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.”
Locus Array formally launched at
MODEX 2026 to extraordinary market interest and earned recognition as a top-three finalist for Best New Innovation among more than 200 submissions.
It is currently live in customer deployments, with additional sites underway. The acquisition of
Nexera builds on that momentum by expanding what Locus Array can autonomously handle and significantly broadening the addressable market for Locus Robotics and its customers.
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 organisation.