Aurora Robotics secures $120M to commercialize warehouse pick-and-place arms

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Aurora’s arms combine high-speed actuators with vision modules and learned grasp policies that adapt to diverse packaging. The company sells them as modular cells that can be added incrementally to existing lines without major conveyor redesign.

The funding will expand manufacturing capacity, build regional deployment teams and complete certification for several major logistics operators. Aurora also announced a pilot program offering the robots as a managed service with outcome-based pricing.

Investors include industrial automation funds and a logistics operator participating as a strategic backer. Aurora plans to add tooling kits for returns processing and fragile-item handling in the next product cycle.