ACN News & Events

Accenture has invested, through Accenture Ventures, in AI-native company General Robotics. General Robotics offers general-purpose robotic intelligence that allows organizations to rapidly deploy and continuously adapt robots of any form, with any AI, for any task. With this investment, Accenture and General Robotics will also partner to help manufacturers, logistics companies and clients in other asset-intensive industries advance autonomous operations with physical AI. Physical AI is essential to scaled robot deployment as it enables simulations of factories and warehouses that adhere to real-world conditions, in which robots learn to do tasks more efficiently. These simulations will also let companies find more effective configurations for their robot fleets before deploying them at the actual sites. General Robotics brings GRID, a unified intelligence platform that connects robots across robotics original equipment manufacturers to deployable, scalable, and adaptable AI. Rather than relying on static programming, the platform focuses on modular, reusable AI skills, cloud-based orchestration, simulation training and sovereignty over data and intellectual property. Accenture brings deep expertise in physical AI and manufacturing, logistics and other asset-intensive industries including utilities, energy, and aerospace. Terms of this investment were not disclosed.

Accenture Federal Services will lead a high-velocity engineering and integration sprint to deliver an early capability for the U.S. Department of Energy's Genesis Mission. This sprint will focus on advancing the Critical Mineral and Materials to Unlock Supply initiative, which is led by DOE's National Laboratories in partnership with Accenture. In a powerful alliance with all U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratories and commercial leaders like Databricks Federal, Accenture Federal Services is building a scalable digital infrastructure to accelerate the delivery of the American Science and Security Platform. This early capability will operationalize AI-powered workflows together with DOE mission data for the Genesis Mission's Critical Mineral Supply Challenges, allowing CM2US scientists and engineers to collaborate on real-world data and research challenges - using advanced technologies - as soon as early summer to secure the nation's most vital supply chains.

Accenture has invested, through Accenture Ventures, in Replit, an AI-powered software creation platform company, to help enterprises accelerate the creation of new digital platforms using AI-driven software development. As part of this investment, the two companies are also entering into a strategic partnership. As part of this partnership, Accenture will collaborate with Replit to explore how AI-driven development can be applied to enterprise environments. The teams will work together to identify practical use cases and new development workflows that can be scaled to Accenture's clients globally. Replit provides a cloud-based platform that combines coding environments with AI-powered development assistance, collaboration tools, and hosting infrastructure in a single workspace. With AI agents capable of generating and modifying code from natural language prompts, teams can rapidly build prototypes, iterate ideas, and deploy applications without the traditional complexity of configuring development environments. Terms of the investment were not disclosed.

Accenture has acquired Keepler Data Tech, a Spanish cloud-native AI and data company. More than 240 Keepler professionals will join Accenture. The company, with presence in Madrid, London and Lisbon, has a team that includes technical architects, data scientists, analysts and software engineers among others. Terms of the transaction, including the acquisition of the stake held by private equity investment firm DTCP, were not disclosed.