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Rice Robotics picks up $7M, powers SoftBank's office delivery
TechCrunch· 10 months agoIn the case of Hong Kong–based Rice Robotics, the important order has come from SoftBank. Since...
SoftBank backs Japanese robotics startup Telexistence in $170M funding round
TechCrunch· 11 months agoTokyo-based Telexistence said Thursday that it has raised $170 million (23 billion yen) in a Series...
SoftBank Boosts its Ambitions in the Robotics Industry, Backs Telexistence with $170M Investment
Benzinga via Yahoo Finance· 11 months agoSoftbank Group Corp (OTC: SFTBY) (OTC: SFTBF) joined a $170 million funding round for a robot maker...
SoftBank Robotics Europe is now Aldebaran (again)
TechCrunch· 2 years agoIts 2015 acquisition of Aldebaran didn’t go as smoothly as SoftBank hoped. At the time, the French robotics startup was best known for its Nao, which had...
Can SoftBank convince more restaurants to use robots?
Quartz via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoSoftBank’s vision is one filled with more robots. The Japanese conglomerate has made a string of...
Revolutionizing Logistics: Symbotic Joins Forces With SoftBank And Walmart
Benzinga via Yahoo Finance· 7 months agoSoftBank Group is one of the most successful investment holding companies in the world, with its...
Behind SoftBank’s investing cleanup, a US dealmaker who survived the turmoil
Reuters via Yahoo Finance· 5 months agoWhen he left Morgan Stanley to join SoftBank Group in Tokyo in 2015, Alex Clavel had little in...
SoftBank Sells Off Vision Fund Assets as Son Pivots to AI, Chips
Bloomberg via Yahoo Finance· 3 weeks ago(Bloomberg) -- SoftBank Group Corp.’s flagship Vision Fund has quietly sold off or written down...
SoftBank Group backs former Argo AI founders on new self-driving trucks startup Stack AV
TechCrunch· 9 months agoBryan Salesky, Peter Rander and Brett Browning — the trio behind the now defunct Ford and VW-backed...
SoftBank posts loss, with a cumulative loss of $6.3B in its Vision Fund business
TechCrunch· 10 months agoAs SoftBank prepares to dive deeper into AI investments, the group posted an unexpected consecutive...