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September 2026 Robotics Recap
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…formed a joint venture with SoftBank Group Corp., focusing on the development and commercialization of autonomous construction equipment for large infrastructure projects. The company said that the joint venture has been capitalized by SoftBank Group to meaningfully scale across several construction use cases, substantially enhancing ASI's capacity to meet the market's need for next-generation autonomous technologies focused on civil construction…
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…a Series A funding round. SoftBank is investing $200 million in Gravis Robotics, which the company said represents the largest Series A in construction robotics history. Gravis said that this funding will be used to accelerate its mission in physical AI - scaling autonomous heavy machinery across jobsites globally. AI built to change the world, not just navigate it The…
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…ecosystem, including: DCVC NVIDIA Amazon SoftBank Vision Fund 2 Schaeffler Foxconn Abico Playground Global. “Churchill Capital is proud to partner with companies that are shaping the future of technology and commerce,” said Michael Klein, chairman and CEO of Churchill Capital Corp XI. “Agility is a humanoid first mover with proven technology, real-world deployments, and the trust of some of the…
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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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