---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-25-056882"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ZBRA"
cik: "0000877212"
company_name: "ZEBRA TECHNOLOGIES CORP"
filed_at: "2025-12-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T13:18:35.598884+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Zebra Technologies to exit robotics automation business; expects up to $80M charges

## Summary
- Company to dispose or exit its robotics automation solutions business as part of strategic realignment.
- Expects up to $80 million in one-time pre-tax charges, including ~$60M non-cash asset impairment in Q4 2025.
- Actions expected to yield net annualized pre-tax cost savings of at least $20 million.
- Charges subject to assumptions; actual results may differ materially.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-25-056882
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ZBRA
- cik: 0000877212
- company_name: ZEBRA TECHNOLOGIES CORP
- filed_at: 2025-12-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.05, 2.06
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/877212/000162828025056882/0001628280-25-056882-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/877212/000162828025056882/zbra-20251209.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-25-056882.txt

## Source-grounded claims
- claim_id: 816ec75d1cf1392432af537e80aeda8bd98d0cac
  claim: ZEBRA TECHNOLOGIES CORP announced a restructuring with charges of up to $80 million of one-time pre-tax charges, inclusive of non-cash asset impairment charges of approximately $60 million affecting robotics automation solutions business.
  evidence_excerpt: On December 9, 2025, in an effort to realign resources to efficiently support its strategic priorities, Zebra Technologies Corporation (the “Company”) determined that it would dispose or exit of its robotics automation solutions business. The Company expects to incur up to $80 million of one-time pre-tax charges, inclusive of non-cash asset impairment charges of approximately $60 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/877212/000162828025056882/0001628280-25-056882-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.