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Nearly 18,000 warehouse robots worth about $1.2 billion were ordered in North America in the first half of 2026, with unit volume up 2% and order value up 7% year over year, according to Association for Advancing Automation data cited by the WSJ. A survey found 92% of firms plan to raise automation spending this year. Symbotic posted Q3 FY2026 revenue of $721 million, up 22%, with a $22.5 billion backlog; Amazon has passed one million deployed robots and GXO runs over 20,000 across its network.