Adept Reports Financial Results for Its Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2006


LIVERMORE, Calif.--Oct. 13, 2006--Adept Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:ADEP), a leading provider of control software, precision robotics and automation services, today reported financial results for its fiscal fourth quarter and year ended June 30, 2006 and announced the restatement of its fiscal 2006 quarterly reports.

Fourth quarter 2006 revenues were $14.9 million, a 4% increase compared with revenues of $14.4 million for the fourth quarter of 2005. Revenues for the full year ended June 30, 2006 were $57.6 million, up 14% from revenues of $50.5 million for fiscal 2005. Fourth quarter 2006 net income was $984,000, or $0.14 per basic share outstanding, compared with net income of $903,000, or $0.15 per basic share, for the fourth quarter of 2005. Net income for the full year 2006 was $538,000, or $0.08 per basic share outstanding, compared with net income of $1.3 million, or $0.21 per basic share for the prior year. Net income for 2006 includes non-cash stock compensation expense of $1.2 million, associated primarily with the valuation of stock options, as required by FAS 123R. No stock compensation expense was included in 2005 earnings. Additionally, net income reflects a gain on currency exchange of $86,000 for the full fiscal year 2006 compared with a gain on currency exchange and other income of $584,000 in fiscal 2005.

Gross margin for fiscal 2006 was 47.3%, compared with gross margin of 45.9% in the previous year. Operating income for fiscal 2006 was $566,000, compared with operating income of $874,000 in fiscal 2005. Operating income for fiscal 2006 includes stock compensation expense of $1.2 million while fiscal 2005 operating income does not.

Cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments as of June 30, 2006 were $14.1 million, as previously reported, compared with $5.3 million as of June 30, 2005. The increase in 2006 includes $10.0 million received during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2006 from the previously announced private placement of Adept's common stock with Crosslink Capital.

Rob Bucher, chief executive officer of Adept, commented, "Fiscal 2006 was a solid operational year and a year of significant achievements in Adept's strategy to deliver revenue growth and position the company to take advantage of new market opportunities on a global basis. We continue to deliver on our plans to make strategic investments in our products, realign our sales structure around key vertical markets and build a strong new revenue stream from selling services to our installed base. Despite the reductions in income reflected in the restatements of our fiscal 2006 interim results, operational streamlining and more favorable product mix yielded improvements in our margins and operational model from 2005."

Business Highlights in Fiscal 2006

During fiscal 2006, Adept made significant achievements in a number of areas, including:

o Continued profitability in fiscal 2006, with no debt.

o Successful relisting on NASDAQ in November 2005, enabling
Adept to gain financial market visibility essential to the
Company's efforts to deliver continued enhanced growth and
shareholder value.

o Continued leadership in the SCARA Precision Assembly Robot
market. Adept remained the number one provider in Europe and
the U.S., recording nearly 50% served market share according
to recent statistics from the International Federation of
Robots.

o Record deliveries of robots and controllers. Adept shipped
nearly 1,300 multi-axis SCARA and Viper robot mechanisms
during the year, an increase of 31% from 2005. The Company
also shipped nearly 3,000 Smart Servo robot controllers,
primarily for disk drive makers and manufacturers in Asia, an
increase of 114% year over year.

o Successful establishment of a worldwide service and support
business to drive revenue growth and leverage the Company's
installed base. With a core focus on remanufacturing and
refurbishment of legacy Adept robot systems, Adept recorded a
27% revenue increase in this business year-over-year and has
begun extending upgrade packages to non-Adept brand robots.

o The implementation of a new vertical market-driven sales focus
to identify and exploit the sweet spots for Adept's current
and future solutions, in particular lab automation and medical
device manufacturing in the U.S., industries that are expected
to invest significantly in automation in the next few years.

o Revenue growth in "evergreen" service markets, international
markets and with multinational companies within Adept's new
vertical market focus. This growth offset continued weakness
in traditional U.S. manufacturing markets, such as automotive
and automotive supply.

o Opening of new testing and support facilities in Europe. This
initiative goes hand in hand with the Company's
internationalization of its operations over the last few
years, bringing service, manufacturing and delivery
capabilities closer to Adept's offshore customers. This
contributed to record robot sales in Germany and France, with
most Cobra products delivered directly from Germany.

o Establishment of sales and marketing programs and
infrastructure in Asia in fiscal 2006, positioning Adept to
take advantage of emerging markets opportunities for SCARA
robots and Adept motion and vision software in India and China
and other Asian markets.

o Successful execution on a strategy to expand Adept's product
portfolio into the 6-axis marketplace, using third-party
mechanisms married to Adept SmartControl. This marketplace is
estimated to be ten times larger than the SCARA market.
Adept's initial focus is on flexible assembly markets in
Europe.

o New engineering investment in control platforms and vision
applications to support today's markets, address traditional
market competition and extend Adept into new opportunities for
precision movement combined with specialized machine vision
capability.

Restatement Update

As the Company previously announced, in the course of conducting the year end consolidation of its financial results and the audit of those results, Adept discovered errors in a number of accounts, primarily involving intercompany eliminations associated with its consolidation of international subsidiaries, as well as the translation of foreign currency account balances. As a result of its review of these errors, the Company delayed the filing of its Annual Report on Form 10-K for fiscal 2006 and will restate its interim financial statements for each of its first three quarterly periods of fiscal 2006, but does not expect to restate its financial statements for any prior fiscal year. Later today Adept will file with the SEC its Annual Report on Form 10-K for its fiscal year 2006, meeting its extended SEC filing deadline. The Company also expects to file its amended Form 10-Qs for each of its first three quarters in fiscal 2006 as soon as possible after filing its Form 10-K.

To correct the errors found in its accounts and prepare reliable financial statements, the Company determined that it was necessary to essentially re-perform the consolidation of its financial statements for the interim periods of fiscal 2006. The consolidations completed to address these errors resulted in adjustments to cost of sales, foreign currency exchange gain/(loss), net income/(loss), earnings/(loss) per share, cash, receivables, inventory, accounts payable, accrued liabilities and stockholders' equity, certain of which adjustments were material to one or more of the interim financial statements for the quarterly periods of fiscal 2006. As will be further discussed in Adept's Annual Report on Form 10-K and amended Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q/A, the restatements will not revise previously reported revenue for any period, but result in income before income taxes for fiscal 2006 of $615,000 (versus the $800,000 previously indicated as expected by the Company), as compared with $1.3 million in the prior year. The restatements also result in the reduction of previously reported net income for the quarter ended September 30, 2005 by approximately ($516,000) creating a net loss of approximately ($356,000) for that quarter compared to previously reported net income; an increase in the previously reported net loss for the quarter ended December 31, 2005 by approximately ($252,000) to approximately ($262,000) for that quarter; and a reduction of the previously reported net income for the quarter ended March 31, 2006 of approximately ($1.1 million) to approximately $172,000.

"It is very disappointing, in light of the investments and achievements we made in our products, markets and international capabilities in fiscal 2006, that our accounting and financial systems did not keep pace," continued Bucher. "We are committed to investing the resources and attention required to effectively manage the financial functions of the company in keeping with our ambition to grow on a global basis."

Conference Call

The Company will hold a conference call with management to discuss its fiscal 2006 results within the next few days and will provide prior notice of the call.

About Adept Technology, Inc.

Adept Technology, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets robotic systems, motion control and machine vision technology for global markets including automotive, consumer electronics, consumer goods, disk drive, food, industrial tooling, medical devices, and pharmaceutical. Adept robots, controllers, and software are used for small parts assembly, material handling and packaging. Adept intelligent automation product lines include industrial robots, configurable linear modules, machine controllers for robot mechanisms and other flexible automation equipment, machine vision, and systems and applications software. Founded in 1983, Adept Technology is the largest U.S.-based manufacturer of industrial robots. More information is available at www.adept.com.

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