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January 2026 Automation M&A Wave: Siemens, Skild AI, and SoftBank Among Key Players
Control Engineering's January 2026 mergers and acquisitions roundup highlights a busy start to the year for automation deal-making, with transactions involving Siemens, AI robotics software firm Skild AI, and SoftBank. The activity signals that large industrial conglomerates are aggressively acquiring AI and robotics capabilities rather than building them in-house. Integration of AI-native software stacks into legacy automation hardware is emerging as the dominant M&A thesis.
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