SoftBank (TYO: 9984) has led a funding round of about $500 million in Agile Robots, a Munich robotics company that Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) also backs. The deal comes about a week after China refused to ...

China blocked Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son’s SoftBank Group's takeover of ABB’s robotics unit, derailing the Japanese ...

ABB and SoftBank are exploring ways to salvage a blocked transaction, including carving out the Chinese element of ‌a $5.4B ...

China has blocked SoftBank Group’s proposed $5.4 billion acquisition of ABB’s robotics business, dealing a significant ...

SoftBank Group stock is weighing a proposed Malaysia AI venture against a blocked ABB robotics deal in China. Funding costs ...

Manufacturing Dive · Courtesy of ABB Robotics Softbank Group is back in close talks with ABB to recover a robotics acquisition that was blocked by China's regulators last week. The global technology ...

ABB Robotics announced on November 11, 2026 that it is supplying more than 1,700 large industrial robots for BMW Group’s Neue Klasse vehicle generation, covering body-shop production at BMW plants in ...

Chinese authorities blocked the deal over concerns about robotics data being transferred overseas and used to train AI models ...

The acquisition was expected to strengthen SoftBank’s revenue and profitability as the Japanese investment firm continues to ...

SoftBank Group Corp. and ABB Ltd. are looking at carving out the Chinese part of a giant robotics deal as they explore ways ...