{"id":137950,"date":"2025-10-08T07:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T07:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=137950"},"modified":"2025-10-08T07:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T07:46:11","slug":"softbank-strikes-deal-to-acquire-abbs-robotics-business-for-us5-4-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=137950","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank strikes deal to acquire ABB\u2019s robotics business for US$5.4 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostSoftBank Group Corp on Wednesday said it has agreed to buy the robotics business of Swiss engineering group ABB in a US$5.4 billion deal.<br \/>\nThe deal marks a major push by SoftBank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son into robotics, as he expands investment activity after a period of retrenchment.<br \/>\nSoftBank, whose forays into robotics include the humanoid Pepper, has investments in the segment, including in Berkshire Grey and AutoStore.<br \/>\nThe deal means ABB has abandoned its original decision to spin off and&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/3328219\/softbank-strikes-deal-acquire-abbs-robotics-business-us54-billion?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostSoftBank Group Corp on Wednesday said it has agreed to buy the robotics business of Swiss engineering group ABB in a US$5.4 billion deal.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137950"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}