Japanese investing conglomerate SoftBank Group is buying a robotics company as the financial behemoth says physical AI is its next frontier. SoftBank announced on Wednesday that it has acquired Zurich ...
SAN FRANCISCO, March 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- SoftBank Robotics America today announced the official launch of a new suite of AI-enabled robots for the commercial cleaning industry. This announcement ...
SAN FRANCISCO, April 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- SoftBank Robotics America today announced it has signed a strategic partnership with Matternet, a global pioneer in autonomous drone delivery systems, to ...
SoftBank Group Corp. offered to buy all shares in robot maker Berkshire Grey Inc. it doesn’t already own in a $218 million deal, in a foray into logistics automation after halting almost all ...
ZURICH/TOKYO (Reuters) -SoftBank Group has agreed to buy the robotics business of Swiss engineering group ABB in a $5.4 billion deal, as the Japanese investor forges ahead with a strategy to fuse ...
SoftBank Group agreed to buy the robotics division of Swiss engineering firm ABB for $5.4 billion. The move is part of a number of investments and acquisitions by SoftBank as it looks to position ...
Earlier this year, Automation World interviewed Marc Segura, president of ABB Robotics and we asked him about the news that ABB was planning to spin off ABB Robotics as a stand-alone business. He said ...