New robots, new capabilities. Tracking what's coming for the workforce.
Robotics The number worth reading in the August 27 report is not $6B. It is where SoftBank's robot money has moved in eight weeks: out of the most famous robot company on earth, into driverless excavators, and now into a house robot whose chores are staffed.
Robotics We covered SoftBank's talks to buy Gravis Robotics on July 28. The answer came back different: not a purchase, an investment. A record $200M Series A for construction robotics, and the first clear look at what Gravis actually sells.
Robotics SoftBank sold its last stake in Boston Dynamics to Hyundai, then opened talks to buy a maker of autonomous excavators — the crowd-pleasing robot cashed out, the money moved to a machine nobody will livestream.
Robotics Hyundai has completed its buyout of SoftBank's remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics for $325 million, taking full ownership as SoftBank redeploys capital toward its OpenAI bet.
Robotics On April 29 the FT floated SoftBank's plan for a vertical-stack robotics company called Roze AI. By April 30 it was confirmed in U.S. press: bundle ABB Robotics ($5.4B), Ampere ($6.5B), and DigitalBridge ($3B), point the robots at U.S. data-center construction, then list at $100B in 2026 H2.