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SoftBank Group to buy ABB’s robot business for $5.4 billion
Business World Philippines
|October 10, 2025
SoftBank Group has agreed to buy the robotics business of Swiss engineering group ABB in a $5.4-billion deal, as the Japanese investor forges ahead with a strategy to fuse robotics and artificial intelligence (AI).
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The acquisition, announced on Wednesday, is the latest by founder and Chief Executive Officer Masayoshi Son to establish Softbank as a core player in the development of artificial intelligence.
SoftBank pushed into humanoid robotics a decade ago with its Pepper robot but later scaled back its ambitions.
Its recent investments in the sector include Berkshire Grey and AutoStore, and it also led a $40-billion funding round in ChatGPT-maker OpenAl and in March bought chip design company Ampere for $6.5 billion.
SOFTBANK’S STRATEGY: MERGING Al WITH ROBOTICS
“SoftBank’s next frontier is Physical AI,” Mr, Son said in a statement.
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