Whiz, the latest vacuum from SoftBank Robotics isn't nearly as charming as Pepper or its tiny counterpart NAO, but it's certainly more practical. Today in Las Vegas at the ISSA trade show for the ...

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 ...

Two years ago SoftBank made a major attempt to reboot its robotics business with the launch of Whiz, an automated vacuum cleaner. Sales staff struggled to persuade customers to pay $500 monthly ...

Cleaning robot Whiz is also part of the effort to keep the hotels safe environments. Whiz is an autonomous vacuum cleaner using AI technology, also from Softbank. Source: Softbank Pepper robots ...

“This is a robot that behaves autonomously, powered by love,” declared Masayoshi Son, the head of its main backer, SoftBank. Alibaba and Foxconn also invested hundreds of millions in the ...

an affiliate of Japanese tech giant SoftBank, has announced its bid to enter the Korean market with its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered robot vacuums, its Korean unit said Tuesday.

SoftBank is negotiating a $500 million investment in Skild AI, a software company building a foundational model for robotics at a $4 billion valuation, Bloomberg and Financial Times reported.

Its 2015 acquisition of Aldebaran didn’t go as smoothly as SoftBank hoped. At the time, the French robotics startup was best known for its Nao, which had become a fairly ubiquitous presence in ...

SoftBank is backing Japanese robotics startup Telexistence, making good on the tech giant’s recent pledge to go back on the investment offensive in light of the current AI hype. Tokyo-based ...