The Japanese investment firm agreed to take over a business with more than 7,000 employees, which supplies industrial arms ...

TOKYO -- SoftBank Group's $5.4 billion acquisition of the robotics business of Swiss industrial giant ABB represents another step in the Japanese group's pursuit of a manufacturing revolution powered ...

Robots that move, lift, and sense objects without electronics are now possible. They work using materials that snap and bend ...

TOKYO -- SoftBank Group's decade-old Pepper robots have served as a mascot for the technology company, but the Japanese business has adopted more ambitious plans and structural changes on the belief ...

U.S. technology company Nvidia and Fujitsu, a Japanese telecommunications and computer maker, agreed Friday to work together ...

In 1982, personal computers were beige, boxy, and built for engineers. They were powerful, but uninviting. Few people knew what they were for, or why they might need one. It took more than just better ...

As Nvidia Corp. announced new robotics innovations at last week’s Conference on Robot Learning in South Korea, the company ...

Robots just got a new brain and body. NVIDIA has unveiled a sweeping set of updates that could accelerate the development of humanoid robots and physical AI. The company announced the open-source ...

Robotics startup CynLr has teamed up with neuroscientists at IISc’s Vision Lab to build intuitive robots that could transform ...

With Japan facing a significant labor shortage on the horizon, many industries including the agricultural and manufacturing sectors are hoping robots will be a high-tech game changer. Some robots are ...

Japan is among the biggest users of robots in the world, with 303 per 10,000 employees in 2016 — the fourth-highest globally — according to the International Federation of Robotics. But despite such ...