FUKUOKA--Dancing robot dogs named Spot and Pepper humanoid robots have been cheering on the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks baseball ... The pandemic forced the start of Japan's pro baseball season to ...

SoftBank Mobile's bizarre, award-winning TV commercials - featuring a mixed-race family with a talking white dog as the father - have helped grow the company's mobile-phone business.

RICE AI is a robotics brand with high-profile clients such as Nvidia, Softbank, Dubai Future Foundation, Mitsui Fudosan, NTT ...

Japanese electronics maker Sony released the first version of AIBO in 1999. The robot dog used AI to learn and grow, following its owner around and wagging its tail. It initially proved a hit ...

SoftBank led the startup’s Series A round and has shifted to reselling robots from third parties and formed a joint venture with household goods maker Iris Ohyama in Japan. Bear Robotics charges a ...

Japanese group Softbank, known for investing in future-shaping technologies such as driverless cars and robotics, has debuted a $23.5bn share sale of a telecom unit after an initial public offering.

The Japanese company halted assembly of the 198,000 yen (US$1,790 or RM7,433) robot in August after inventory piled up, but may decide to resume production in future, a SoftBank spokeswoman said.

SoftBank, the Japanese financial behemoth ... startups like coworking company WeWork, pizza-robotics company Zume, and on-demand dog-walking startup Wag. Its $100 billion Vision Fund I and ...

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 ...