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 ...

Matternet and SoftBank Robotics America partner to scale drone delivery networks, focusing on healthcare and enterprise logistics deployment.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When SoftBank Group Corp's CEO Masayoshi Son unveiled the wide-eyed android Pepper in 2014, he painted a vision, once confined to science fiction, of a new era of personal robots in which his company ...

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 ...

SoftBank is reportedly restructuring its robotics business — SoftBank Robotics — and has already halted production of its Pepper robot, according to Reuters. Robotics is just one of many businesses ...

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