Featured image courtesy of ABB. Electrification and automation manufacturing conglomerate ABB announced plans to spin off its robotics division, marking its largest portfolio shift since divesting its ...

Swiss technology company ABB Group plans to further strengthen its presence in China, the world's largest robotics market, through a series of artificial intelligence-driven innovations and new ...

Across industries, R&D is costly and slow—often the biggest barrier to innovation, even when AI helps out. Atinary claims its Self-Driving Labs (SDLabs) let chemists deploy easy-to-use machine ...

Following SoftBank's acquisition of ABB's robotics business, the global industrial robot landscape has shifted from a European-Japanese balance to dominance by Japanese firms and China's Midea Group.

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ABB CEO Morten Wierod tells CNBC’s Europe Early Edition why he supports SoftBank’s vision for ABB’s robotics business, following the announcement of a $5.4 billion sale to the Japanese tech group.

Swiss engineering company ABB said it is seeing strong customer demand, particularly from a surge in new data centers being built in the U.S. to process artificial intelligence. ABB, which makes ...

Regal Rexnord Corp. joined forces with automation leader ABB Robotics to simplify integration of its GoFa cobots into 7th Axis Cobot Transfer Units (CTUs). The CTUs come from Thomson, one of Regal ...

The transaction is the latest in a series of investments and acquisitions relating to the development of artificial intelligence infrastructure. Morrison Foerster has advised longtime client SoftBank ...

Tokyo-listed shares of SoftBank Group (OTC:SFTBY) (OTC:SFTBF) jumped as much as 13% after the Japanese giant agreed to acquire Swiss engineering firm ABB‘s (OTC:ABBNY) Robotics unit in a deal valued ...

SoftBank Acquires ABB’s Robotics Business for $5.4B Your email has been sent SoftBank has struck a definitive deal to acquire ABB’s robotics business for $5.375 billion, doubling down on founder ...