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.

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

Abstract: This brief addresses the leader-follower formation tracking control problem of nonholonomic mobile robots. The topology of the sensor network is described by a directed spanning tree.

The new RobotStudio AI Assistant uses advanced language models to understand natural-language queries and provide detailed guidance based on ABB’s extensive technical documentation. Marc Segura, ...

Fighting robots and their owners from across Europe have been competing at the UK championships. Almost 50 robots, each weighing 1.5kg or less, fought against each other at an event in St Michael's ...

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Last week, Brett Adcock, founder of Figure AI, posted to social media that one of his company’s humanoid robots had been running on the BMW X3 body shop production line for five months. “We have been ...

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 ...

Richtech Robotics has landed pilot deals and a $4 million partnership with China but generated only $3.6 million in revenue over the prior nine months. The stock has surged 852% over the past 12 ...

With Figure 03, we see images of a humanoid robot doing the dishes, serving drinks, or working at a hotel reception desk and our minds tend to fill in the gaps and assume the robot is acting like a ...

Abstract: This letter presents a robust multi-sensor fusion framework, Leg-KILO (Kinematic-Inertial-Lidar Odometry). When lidar-based SLAM is applied to legged robots, high-dynamic motion (e.g., trot ...