Grace Ashiru
AfricAI has entered into a multi-year, exclusive distribution and deployment agreement with Micropolis Robotics. The agreement grants AfricAI the sole and exclusive rights to commercialise, deploy, and scale Micropolis’s advanced robotics platforms across Africa—an entry that is being positioned as one of the most consequential robotics market moves on the continent to date.
Under the terms of the agreement, Micropolis Robotics appoints AfricAI as its exclusive partner for the continent. This appointment prohibits direct sales by Micropolis within the territory and bars alternative distributors or third-party agents from operating across Africa. As a result, AfricAI becomes the primary execution, localisation, and go-to-market platform for intelligent robotics serving African industrial, security, logistics, and infrastructure sectors.
This exclusive mandate places AfricAI in the role of a gateway for advanced autonomous systems entering African markets, with an emphasis on regulatory compliance, local capacity building, and sovereign control over deployment frameworks. The partnership is framed as extending beyond software-based artificial intelligence into physical AI: intelligent machines designed to operate in complex, real-world African environments.
“This is not a collaboration — it is a market-shaping mandate,” said Fareed Aljawhari, CEO of Micropolis Robotics. “AfricAI now represents the exclusive gateway through which Micropolis technologies enter Africa. Their sovereign AI vision, operational reach, and regulatory fluency make them the only partner capable of executing at a continental scale.”
The agreement enables AfricAI to integrate Micropolis’s autonomous robotics systems with AfricAI’s sovereign AI stack. This integration supports a range of AI-driven and robotics-enabled applications, including security and surveillance platforms, logistics and port operations, industrial automation, smart infrastructure, and municipal robotics tailored to African operating conditions.
Also embedded in the agreement are long-term, performance-linked expansion rights, automatic renewals, and a structured localisation framework intended to anchor robotics deployment, workforce training, and skills transfer within Africa.
HRH Prince Malik Ado-Ibrahim, Executive Chairman of AfricAI, stated: “Africa does not need imported automation — it needs sovereign, context-aware intelligent systems. This exclusive mandate allows AfricAI to industrialise robotics deployment at scale while retaining control, compliance, and value creation on the continent.”
Initial deployments are set to begin in security, smart infrastructure, and logistics, followed by phased expansion across multiple African states as part of AfricAI’s broader continental strategy spanning AI, data, and intelligent infrastructure.
Industry analysts note that the agreement positions AfricAI as one of the first exclusive robotics gatekeepers on the continent, creating a pathway for Africa to leapfrog legacy industrialisation models through autonomous, AI-driven physical infrastructure.
Both companies reaffirmed their commitment to responsible innovation, ESG compliance, and the development of sustainable robotics ecosystems that strengthen productivity, security, and economic resilience across Africa.
