AfricaAI secures continental rights to deploy advanced robotics platforms across Africa
First Quarter 2026
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AfricaAI has signed a multi-year exclusive distribution and deployment agreement with Micropolis Robotics, granting AfricaAI sole and exclusive rights to commercialise, deploy and scale Micropolis’s advanced robotics platforms across Africa, marking one of the most consequential robotics market entries on the continent to date.
Under the agreement, Micropolis Robotics appoints AfricaAI as its exclusive continental partner, prohibiting direct sales, alternative distributors or third-party agents operating within the territory. The agreement establishes AfricaAI as the primary execution, localisation and go-to-market platform for intelligent robotics across African industrial, security, logistics, and infrastructure sectors. This exclusive mandate positions AfricaAI as the gateway for advanced autonomous systems entering African markets, ensuring regulatory compliance, local capacity building and sovereign control over deployment frameworks. The partnership moves beyond software-based artificial intelligence into the realm of physical AI: intelligent machines capable of operating in complex, real-world African environments.
The agreement enables AfricaAI to integrate Micropolis’s autonomous robotics systems with AfricaAI’s sovereign AI stack, enabling AI-driven security and surveillance platforms, robotics-enabled logistics and port operations, industrial automation, smart infrastructure, and municipal robotics tailored to African operating conditions.
Prince Malik Ado-Ibrahim, executive chairman of AfricaAI stated: “Africa does not need imported automation, it needs sovereign, context-aware intelligent systems. This exclusive mandate allows AfricaAI to industrialise robotics deployment at scale while retaining control, compliance and value creation on the continent.”
Industry analysts note that the agreement positions AfricaAI as one of the first exclusive robotics gatekeepers on the continent, enabling Africa to leapfrog legacy industrialisation pathways through the deployment of autonomous, AI-driven physical infrastructure.
For more information contact Rebecca King, AfricaAI, [email protected], www.africa.ai
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