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 ...

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 ...

This deal is founder Masayoshi Son’s push to fuse advanced AI with industrial robots. SoftBank has struck a definitive deal to acquire ABB’s robotics business for $5.375 billion, doubling down on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Strong customer value proposition by combining ABB Robotics' leading technology and industry expertise with SoftBank's state-of-the-art capabilities in AI, robotics and next-generation computing ...

Tech companies are racing to build out infrastructure that can further drive the automation boom. Now, Japanese multinational SoftBank reportedly plans to create a new company designed to automate the ...

Three Sixty Seven served as the exclusive advisor to SoftBank Robotics America for this transaction. TAMPA, Fla., March 25, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Three Sixty Seven Advisors is pleased to announce ...

SoftBank Group is planning to spin off a new AI and robotics company called Roze and list it in the U.S. at a target valuation of about $100 billion, according to the Financial Times. According to ...

When you’re Masayoshi Son, the founder of SoftBank back in 1981, CEO ever since, and planning to hang on to the top job for ...