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Symbotic bought Walmart's own robotics business, Advanced Systems and Robotics.
A dated step forward on the record
What the source says
“In January 2025, we acquired the Advanced Systems and Robotics (“ASR”) business from Walmart”
What it means
Symbotic, from Symbotic, is at stage 4 of 5 on our ladder: paying customers. Its stage is set by other milestones on its record; this one adds to the history.
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More on Symbotic
- Symbotic reported $721 million in revenue for the quarter, up 22% on a year earlier, with 77 systems being installed.
- Symbotic reported about $22.5 billion of signed work still to be delivered (its backlog).
- Walmart made up about 85% of Symbotic's revenue in the year to September 2025.
- As part of that deal, Walmart agreed to pay $520 million to develop and buy 400 small automated pickup systems for the back rooms of its stores.
- Symbotic was putting its robot system into all 42 of Walmart's regional distribution centers in the US.
- Symbotic said it had found errors in how it counted revenue, restated its 2024 quarterly results and could not file its annual report on time.