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…with Angela Du, partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers. The conversation included SoftBank’s 5-, 10- and 300-year outlook (not a typo) in the robotics investment space, alongside the company’s target industries moving forward. SoftBank acquired ABB’s Robotics division in October 2025 for $5.375 billion. The global robotics landscape The next session at Robotics Invest 2026 featured a four-person panel, discussing the…
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…some cases, primary deal drivers. SoftBank, Hyundai, NVIDIA, and Amazon are no longer just customers or acquirers; they’re showing up on cap tables at the seed and Series A stages. While they bring clear strategic value, they’re also reshaping term dynamics, exit pathways, and founder incentives in ways financial investors need to evaluate carefully. Together, these forces have made robotics…
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The state of investment and funding in the robotics industry in 2026
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…a $7.5 billion commitment from SoftBank Group and Symbotic, Exol, formerly known as GreenBox Systems LLC, said that it is building a nationwide automated fulfillment network designed to deliver consistent, enterprise-grade omnichannel operations across business-to-business (B2B) fulfillment and compliance, direct-to-consumer (DTC) fulfillment, store replenishment, retail consolidation, inbound and outbound freight services and intelligent carrier selection. “Symbotic’s vision has always been…
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…in AI infrastructure OpenAI, Oracle, SoftBank Group AI investment $500 billion Toyota merges Bastian Solutions and viastore North America Bastian Solutions; Toyota; viastore Merger Not disclosed Apptronik closes $350M funding from Google, others to scale AI-powered humanoid production Apptronik Series A funding $350 million ABB divests Robotics division to SoftBank Group for $5.375B ABB; SoftBank Group Divestment $5.375 billion PHOTOS:…
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…of its Robotics division to SoftBank, there’s always something going on under the company’s hood. Sustainability remains one of ABB’s key pillars in its manufacturing technologies and processes, along with the end products that its robots manufacture. How EV manufacturing changes the game for ABB robots Electric vehicles are all the rage. Thanks to global environmental initiatives, EVs are more…
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…divest its Robotics division to SoftBank Group for an enterprise value of $5.375 billion. The move represents a significant change from an announcement in early 2025, when ABB intended to spin off the Robotics division as a separately listed company. The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals and further customary closing conditions and is expected to close in mid-to-late 2026.…
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…revenue multiple in 2022, with SoftBank acquiring a $2.2 billion stake that valued the company at $7 billion. Similarly, Zebra Technologies acquired Fetch Robotics for $290 million (95% stake) in 2021. Based on Fetch’s “run-rate sales of approximately $10 million” at the time of the acquisition, IA said this would imply a staggering 31x revenue multiple. However, Interact Analysis said…
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…led by OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank – announced by U.S. President Donald Trump on January 21. On Twitter/X, users saw the release of DeepSeek as both innovative and impressive. NEWS: DeepSeek just dropped ANOTHER open-source AI model, Janus-Pro-7B. It's multimodal (can generate images) and beats OpenAI's DALL-E 3 and Stable Diffusion across GenEval and DPG-Bench benchmarks. This comes on top…
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…such as OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank. Companies to form joint venture, Stargate In conjunction with the major investment news, companies including OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank will form a joint venture called Stargate. Masayoshi Son, CEO of Softbank, Larry Ellison, CTO of Oracle and Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI were at the White House on January 21 as part of the…
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…Nobel Laureate Myron Scholes and Softbank VC co-founder Gary Rieschel. The RoboForce development team come from institutions including Carnegie Mellon University, Michigan Robotics, Amazon Robotics, Tesla, Google, Waymo, Apple, and Microsoft. With this funding, RoboForce is preparing to deploy its RF-04 mobile manipulation robots (MMRs) this year for early customers. RoboForce will debut its technology at the Intersolar & Energy…
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SoftBank Robotics America recently announced a strategic partnership with Formant, a leading robot management system. The partnership will drive deeper integration across the portfolio of solutions SoftBank Robotics offers to help businesses transform the way they get work done. SoftBank chose Formant as a strategic technology partner to help lay the foundation for integrating advanced business intelligence, additional software services…
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…the NAO and Pepper humanoids. SoftBank Group previously owned Aldebaran. RobotLAB said it has deployed nearly 7,000 NAO educational robots and 600 Pepper service robots since 2009. The company has integrated NAO into K-12 schools and universities across the U.S. It is also deploying more than 150 STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) carts, which include NAO robots, to every…
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…that it is partnering with SoftBank Group on a joint venture called GreenBox to build out a network of automated, multi-tenant distribution centers (DCs). This introduced the concept of “warehouse as a service,” which is more than RaaS in that GreenBox would manage and run these automated DCs for multiple clients as a service. While many vendors see growing momentum…
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…that it is partnering with SoftBank on a joint venture called GreenBox to build out a network of automated, multi-tenant DCs running on Symbotic’s technology, we have the concept of “warehouse-as-a-service,” which is more than RaaS in that GreenBox would manage and run these automated DCs for multiple clients as a service. While many vendors see growing momentum for RaaS,…
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Cybernetix Ventures’ event kicks off Robotics Tech Week 2026 slate of events
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