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 ...

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 ...

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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.

The transaction is the latest in a series of investments and acquisitions relating to the development of artificial intelligence infrastructure. Morrison Foerster has advised longtime client SoftBank ...

Tokyo-listed shares of SoftBank Group (OTC:SFTBY) (OTC:SFTBF) jumped as much as 13% after the Japanese giant agreed to acquire Swiss engineering firm ABB‘s (OTC:ABBNY) Robotics unit in a deal valued ...