A robotics innovator headquartered in North Vancouver is being acquired.
Nexera Robotics, founded in 2021, is known for its flagship product, NeuraGrasp.
The proprietary NeuraGrasp technology—developed over five years of “continual improvement”—combines artificial 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 different shapes, textures, weight, and even levels of porosity, providing reliable grasps across high-variability inventory.
Locus Robotics this week announced that it is acquiring Nexera with the intention of integrating NeuraGrasp tech into its own AI platform, Locus Array, which formally launched at MODEX 2026.
The Wilmington, Massachusetts warehouse automation firm believes that advanced mobile manipulation offers the most flexible and scalable path to fully autonomous fulfillment by eliminating the constraints of fixed infrastructure.
“The frontier of warehouse robotics today is AI-driven mobile manipulation at enterprise scale,” explains chief executive officer Rick Faulk.
“Being able to efficiently grasp millions of SKU types with both speed and precision is where the next decade of value gets created,” Faulk posits.
Nexera, he says, “has built something technically significant in that space, and combining it with Locus Array puts us at the forefront of levelling up mobile manipulation across the industry.”
Roy Belak, CEO of Nexera, says “we built NeuraGrasp to solve the manipulation challenges that have held robotic picking back for years.”
NeuraGrasp technology significantly expands the range of SKU types Locus Array can pick autonomously, according to Belak, advancing capabilities and broadening what the platform can handle across end-to-end fulfillment workflows.
As a result of the transaction, 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.
“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,” Belak remarked.
The integrated technologies are “expected to become available in the coming months.”
Nexera Robotics raised $4.5 million from BDC Capital’s Industrial Innovation Venture Fund and others in 2025.
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