SoftBank Group Corp is slashing jobs at its global robotics business and has stopped producing its Pepper robot, according to sources and documents reviewed by Reuters, as the conglomerate ...

SoftBank is negotiating a $500 million investment in Skild AI, a software company building a foundational model for robotics at a $4 billion valuation, Bloomberg and Financial Times reported.

which builds robots that run, jump and climb stairs. More than a decade after the Dot Com bubble burst, SoftBank reaped the financial rewards of the early Alibaba deal. When the Chinese e-commerce ...

Alphabet's Google launched two new AI models tailored for robotics applications on Wednesday based on its Gemini 2.0 model, ...

Japanese technology company Softbank denies it’s pulling the plug on its friendly, talking, bubble-headed Pepper robot. “There is absolutely no change to our Pepper business,” Softbank ...

Billionaire Masayoshi Son, founder and CEO of Japanese multinational investment company SoftBank Group, is one of the richest ...

the robot food runner, after raising $32 million in Series A funding this week. The round was led by Softbank, which has a reputation for investing in startups that can digitize and disrupt slow ...

This resident of Maison Ferrari said she would like a robot to teach her basketball. Manufactured by Tokyo-based SoftBank Robotics, this robot is not programmed for that. However, its software ...

Autumn and Chad Edwards also can control what the robot says to test different patterns of speaking and observe its interactions with humans from outside the room via cameras. Pepper is not for sale ...

Mega-rounds are also the hallmark of SoftBank Vision Fund, the Japanese behemoth well-known for its big bets on ill-fated technology startups like coworking company WeWork, pizza-robotics company ...

SoftBank is negotiating a $500 million investment in Skild AI, a software company building a foundational model for robotics at a $4 billion valuation, Bloomberg and Financial Times reported. The ...