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 ...

Japanese investment firm The SoftBank Group this afternoon announced it will spend $2.8 billion to buy a 40% stake in robotics company AutoStore System, which specializes in robotics for warehouses.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maybe the robots aren’t coming for your jobs just yet. As such, some of the company’s customers have declined to renew their contracts with SoftBank, according to the Journal, which reported that used ...

(Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp has agreed to buy a 40% stake in AutoStore for $2.8 billion, the Norway-based robotics firm said on Monday, in yet another big investment by the conglomerate in ...