SoftBank announced in early October 2025 that it has agreed to acquire Swiss industrial giant ABB's robotics business for US$5.375 billion, with the deal expected to close in the second half of 2026.

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 ...

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SoftBank Group has reportedly agreed to acquire ABB’s robotics business for $5.4 billion, in a move that has marked its boldest push yet to fuse artificial intelligence with industrial automation. The ...

Following SoftBank's acquisition of ABB's robotics business, the global industrial robot landscape has shifted from a ...

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 ...

ZURICH (Reuters) -ABB is launching three new families of factory robots designed specially for China, the Swiss engineering company said on Wednesday, as it aims to benefit from rising demand for ...

SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son has long predicted a future where robots would outnumber people and take over many jobs from humans.

ABB Robotics has invested in California-based LandingAI to accelerate its use of vision AI. A key goal of this investment involves the integration of LandingAI’s vision AI tech, such as LandingLens, ...