SoftBank Group Corp. is seeking a loan of as much as $16.5 billion to help fund artificial intelligence investments in the US ...

NAO is the sixth generation of the interactive humanoid robot NAO, developed by the Japanese-French company SoftBank Robotics. It is in use worldwide and serves primarily as a research object for ...

The manufacturer of the humanoid robots Nao and Pepper, Aldebaran Robotics, has slipped into insolvency. Whether and how it will continue is largely unclear. The French robotics company Aldebaran ...

SoftBank plans to invest over $1 trillion in AI industrial parks in the US, with CEO Masayoshi Son discussing the idea with ...

SoftBank Group (OTCPK:SFTBY) (OTCPK:SFTBF) intends to build industrial parks in the U.S. featuring AI-equipped factories, ...

SoftBank considers $16.5B loan for US AI ambitions, may help lead $40B funding round in OpenAI, valuing it at $300B. Japan's AI project also continues.

FUKUOKA--Dancing robot dogs named Spot and Pepper humanoid robots have been cheering on the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks baseball team in the absence of flesh and blood fans and cheerleaders. The ...

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 ...

But the Japanese giant has other projects in the works, too. Whiz is the company's newly released robot vacuum. SoftBank calls it a "fully autonomous vacuum sweeper," similar to a Roomba ...

As the growth of the U.S. workforce is expected to slow down, SoftBank is confident that the efficient use of AI robots would help the U.S. manufacturing industry to develop further, the report noted.