SoftBank-backed Agile Robots expects to roughly double revenue in 2026. CEO Zhaopeng Chen told the Wall Street Journal the Munich company generated €300 million (about $346 million) in 2025 and is targeting around €600 million this year, with signed customer contracts already underpinning that forecast.
Chen said the firm expects to reach profitability within two to three years. Founded in 2018, Agile Robots has raised about $1.5 billion from investors led by SoftBank Group and has grown through more than a dozen acquisitions — including thyssenkrupp Automation Engineering and warehouse robotics specialist idealworks. Robotics & Automation News, citing the Journal, reports that 10–15 percent of new business this year is expected to come through those acquired units. Chen also argued manufacturing capability will matter as much as AI software for the next phase of growth — a useful counterweight to foundation-model-only robotics narratives.
Agile Robots (Germany / Munich) is the manufacturer for this story, with Diana 7 as the catalogue cobot — a force-sensitive industrial arm, not a new SKU here. Read the €600M target as a systems-and-integration revenue claim across factory automation, not a single-product launch. Idealworks and thyssenkrupp Automation Engineering are named in the wire coverage but are not listed as separate manufacturers here.
These figures are CEO statements via the Journal, not audited public filings. Profitability timing is an expectation, not a commitment. Humanoid R&D and a DeepMind Gemini Robotics partnership appear as colour in secondary coverage; they do not by themselves explain the 2026 revenue math, which the reporting ties to industrial automation demand and existing contracts. No backlog euros, customer names or Diana 7 unit volumes appear in the cited sources.