Massachusetts robotics entrepreneurs focus on specialized machines, while West Coast companies pour billions into humanoid ...

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

Researchers at Andon Labs recently evaluated how well large language models can act as decision-makers in robotic systems. Their study, called Butter-Bench, tested whether modern LLMs ...

Shanghai AI Lab researchers find that giving AI richer context—called “context engineering”—can make models smarter without retraining.

SoftBank's plan to acquire ABB's robotics division for nearly US$5.4 billion by 2026 signals a significant shift in the global robotics landscape. The acquisition marks SoftBank's strategic move into ...

When we talk about the biggest names in robotics for 2025, a few companies immediately come to mind. These are the established players, the ones who have been around for a while and have really built ...

ZURICH (Reuters) -Swiss engineering company ABB said it is seeing strong customer demand, particularly from a surge in new data centres being built in the U.S. to process artificial intelligence. ABB, ...

ABB has announced that it is selling this business to SoftBank – a Japanese financial holding company with a heavy emphasis in technology. SoftBank owns significant stakes in major companies like ...

Tokyo-headquartered SoftBank Group has become well known in recent years for big money acquisitions made through its $100bn Vision Fund, said to be the world's largest technology-focused venture ...

Japanese investment group SoftBank said it’s paying $5.38 billion for the robotics division of Swiss-Swedish engineering company ABB to advance a bet on what it calls artificial super intelligence.

ZURICH/TOKYO - 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 robotics and ...