SoftBank Group Corp., telecommunications and Internet, Tokyo, Japan

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Website - group.softbank

softbank.jp

youtube.com/@SoftBank

facebook.com/SoftBank

twitter.com/SoftBank

linkedin.com/company/softbank-group-international

linkedin.com/company/softbankgroup

SoftBank Corporation on Wikipedia

Founder and CEO - Masayoshi Son

President and CEO of SoftBank Robotics Corp. - Fumihide Tomizawa

Japanese communications giant Softbank Corp.'s wholly-owned subsidiary Asratec Corp.

Softbank is the owner of Sprint Corporation

SoftBank Robotics America

softbankrobotics.com

youtube.com/@softbankroboticsamerica1156

facebook.com/SoftBankRobotics

linkedin.com/company/softbankrobotics

instagram.com/softbankrobotics

Products and projects:

The Stargate Project

Servi, autonomous food service robot

Whiz, floor-cleaning robot

Pepper, humanoid robot

 

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Billiards "super shot"?

Published on Jul 9, 2014

Spherical robot that can be controlled by smartphone "Sphero 2.0".

 

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Agreement Reached for Alibaba and Foxconn to
Invest in SoftBank's Robotics Business
SoftBank, Alibaba and Foxconn cooperate to spread global adoption of robotics

June 18, 2015

SoftBank Corp.
SoftBank Robotics Holdings Corp.
Alibaba Group Holding Limited
Foxconn Technology Group

 

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Press Conference: ARM to be acquired by Japanese SoftBank

Published on Jul 18, 2016

Japanese SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son speaks at the SoftBank Press Conference to announce the acquisition of ARM Holdings for $31.4 Billion, SoftBank promises to keep the same business model for ARM, to increase the employee count in the UK by 2x within the next 5 years, to increase ARM's employee count around the world.

ARM Holdings plc

 

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Article "A Japanese Billionaire’s Robot Dreams Are on Hold"
Culture clashes, artificial intelligence became key stumbling blocks to Pepper program.

by Pavel Alpeyev, Takashi Amano
October 27, 2016

 

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Article "SoftBank announces AI-focused second $108 billion Vision Fund with LPs including Microsoft, Apple and Foxconn"

by Catherine Shu
July 25, 2019

 

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Article "NVIDIA to Acquire Arm for $40 Billion"

September 13, 2020

Nvidia Corporation

Arm Limited

 

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Article "Hyundai Motor acquires Boston Dynamics from SoftBank for almost $1 bn"

by Chae-Yeon Kim and Sang-eun Lucia Lee
December 9, 2020

Article "Hyundai to acquire Boston Dynamics for nearly $1B"

by Steve Crowe
December 9, 2020

Boston Dynamics

Hyundai

 

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Article "SoftBank teams with home-goods maker Iris Ohyama for new robotics venture"

by Brian Heater
January 27, 2021

Iris Ohyama Inc. on Wikipedia

 

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Article "SoftBank acquires UK AI chipmaker Graphcore"
Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but Graphcore CEO Nigel Toon says it’s a positive outcome (for most). Full regulatory approval has been granted already.

by Paul Sawers
July 11, 2024

Graphcore Ltd

 

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Article "Masayoshi Son’s New Loyal Soldier on AI Megadeals"
SoftBank is making another huge bet—and Vikas Parekh wants to avoid a big loss

by Cory Weinberg
February 12, 2025

 

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Article "SoftBank’s Son Goes on a New Borrowing Binge to Fund AI"
The tech investor is in talks to borrow $16 billion, with potentially more to come

by Juro Osawa and Cory Weinberg
March 1, 2025