SoftBank Group

• 2024-07-09 - Series A - $300M - SoftBank participates in Skild AI's $300 million Series A financing

  source: skild.ai

• 2024-07-09 - Series A - $300M - Skild AI raises $300 million Series A at $1.5 billion valuation

  valuation: $1.5B - Skild AI announced a $300M Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Coatue, SoftBank Group and Bezos Expeditions to develop a scalable AI foundation model for robotics. - source: skild.ai

• 2017-03-01 - Series A - $100M - CloudMinds completes $100M Series A and reports unicorn status

  CloudMinds disclosed that it had completed a USD100 million Series A round after earlier announcing SoftBank participation. - source: prnewswire.com

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• Masayoshi Son - Chairman and CEO - Son leads SoftBank Group, whose robotics and AI investments are material to the ecosystem.
• Yoshimitsu Goto - Board Director; Corporate Officer; CFO - Goto is senior finance leadership at SoftBank Group.
• Kazuko Kimiwada - Corporate Officer; Chief Sustainability Officer - Kimiwada is senior corporate leadership at SoftBank Group.

Events

• 2026-09-24 - Funding - Autonomous Solutions receives SoftBank strategic investment

  The companies also formed a separately capitalized venture to develop and commercialize autonomous construction equipment for large infrastructure projects. ASI’s Mobius system is designed to orchestrate mixed fleets across equipment brands, including haul trucks, dozers, loaders and compactors. The investment supports ASI’s broader construction-market commercial operations.

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• 2026-09-18 - Acquisition - SoftBank agrees to acquire RAI Institute

  The Cambridge, Massachusetts institute was founded by Marc Raibert in 2022 and researches robot control, perception, manipulation, navigation and physical AI. Public reporting says the transaction is undergoing review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. The agreement does not yet transfer ownership; completion remains subject to the pending review and other closing conditions.

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• 2026-08-26 - Market Signal - Report says SoftBank is discussing a majority stake in 1X

  The Information attributed the talks to people familiar with the matter, and Reuters said it could not independently confirm the report. SoftBank declined to comment and 1X did not immediately respond to Reuters. No agreement had been announced, and the reported terms remained subject to change.

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• 2026-08-17 - Funding - Gravis Robotics raises $200M Series A from SoftBank

  Gravis retrofits excavators and other existing heavy machinery with perception, compute and control systems rather than requiring purpose-built autonomous equipment. The company reports deployments across four continents, with customer and partner work involving Holcim, Taylor Woodrow and HD Hyundai, including autonomous excavation at Manchester Airport. Gravis describes the transaction as the largest Series A financing completed by a construction-robotics company.

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• 2026-06-19 - Market Signal - Boston Dynamics reportedly set to become wholly owned by Hyundai

  The planned purchase covers SoftBank Group's remaining 9.65% holding. The transaction would move Boston Dynamics from majority ownership to full Hyundai Group ownership.

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• 2026-05-01 - Product Launch - SoftBank Robotics brings STEAMA and FLAMA autonomous cooking robots to the United States

  SoftBank Robotics announced that autonomous cooking robots STEAMA and FLAMA would debut in the United States. The systems sit in SoftBank Robotics' food-service automation lane for commercial kitchen workflows. The U.S. launch expands the company's autonomous cooking portfolio beyond its existing service-robot base.

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• 2026-04-27 - Acquisition - BALYO becomes wholly owned by SoftBank and leaves Euronext Paris

  Silver Bands 4 acquired 9,918,839 remaining ordinary shares, representing 5.93% of BALYO's capital and theoretical voting rights. Minority holders received €0.60 in cash for each ordinary share transferred in the squeeze-out. Euronext removed BALYO's ordinary shares from its regulated Paris market on 27 April 2026.

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• 2025-10-08 - Acquisition - SoftBank signs definitive agreement to acquire ABB Robotics

  The definitive agreement values ABB Robotics at USD 5.375 billion. SoftBank expects to acquire all shares of a new holding company created through ABB's carve-out of the Robotics business. ABB's Q2 2026 filing says closing is expected in the second half of 2026, subject to regulatory approvals, customary closing conditions and legal-entity reorganizations.

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• 2024-07-09 - Funding - SoftBank participates in Skild AI's $300 million Series A financing

  Skild AI announced a $300 million Series A and named SoftBank Group among the round leaders. The financing valued Skild AI at $1.5 billion and was positioned around building a general-purpose robotics foundation model. This is the cleanest surfaced robotics investment event connecting SoftBank to a named humanoid and physical-AI company.

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• 2024-07-09 - Funding - Skild AI raises $300 million Series A at $1.5 billion valuation

  Lightspeed Venture Partners, Coatue, SoftBank Group and Bezos Expeditions led the round. Participants also included Felicis Ventures, Sequoia, Menlo Ventures, General Catalyst, CRV, SV Angel, Carnegie Mellon University, Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund and the Alexa Fund. Skild AI said the capital would support continued development of its robotics foundation model and expansion of its team.

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• 2023-09-11 - Company Formation - Stack AV launches autonomous trucking business

  Stack AV launched with SoftBank Group backing in capital, resources and AI expertise. The company was headquartered in Pittsburgh with workers across 15 states. Founders included former Argo AI leaders Bryan Salesky, Peter Rander and Brett Browning.

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• 2023-04-19 - Funding - Noah Medical raises $150M Series B for endoluminal robotics

  Tiger Global and eight named existing investors joined the oversubscribed financing alongside undisclosed strategic investors. Galaxy had received FDA clearance for U.S. commercial use and begun first-in-human trials at Macquarie University Hospital in Sydney. The system combines TiLT+ tomosynthesis and augmented fluoroscopy with a single-use bronchoscope for lung-nodule diagnosis.

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• 2021-09-21 - Partnership - SoftBank Robotics and Keenon Robotics announce strategic global partnership

  • SoftBank Robotics Group Corp (SBRG) announced a global partnership with Keenon Robotics to expand the use of robotic systems in the servi... • The companies introduced the Keenbot, an indoor intelligent service robot, in markets including Singapore, Japan, Europe, the Middle East... • The Keenbot features multi-point delivery modes, capable of delivering four dishes simultaneously, and includes an intelligent scheduling...

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• 2021-04-20 - Demonstration - RICE begins multi-floor delivery trial at SoftBank headquarters

  RICE carried Seven-Eleven products from the building's convenience store to SoftBank employees on multiple office floors. The robot coordinated with Mitsubishi Electric's elevator system to move between floors without an onboard attendant. The trial tested autonomous last-metre delivery inside a live high-rise office environment.

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• 2021-04-05 - Acquisition - SoftBank agreed to acquire a 40% stake in AutoStore

  SoftBank to Acquire 40% of AutoStore Skip to the main content AutoStore currently has a global blue-chip customer base with more than 600 installations and 20,000 robots across 35 countries AutoStore’s innovative cubic design allows customers to either store four times the inventory in the same space, or all of their existing inventory in 25% of the space

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• 2017-06-09 - Acquisition - SoftBank agrees to acquire Schaft from Alphabet

  SoftBank announced an agreement to acquire Schaft from Alphabet on June 9, 2017. The proposed transaction remained subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals. Later reporting confirmed the Schaft transfer failed because agreed conditions were not fulfilled.

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• 2017-03-01 - Funding - CloudMinds completes $100M Series A and reports unicorn status

  CloudMinds completed a $100 million Series A financing in March 2017. An official company release says the financing gave CloudMinds unicorn status, supporting a valuation lower bound of $1 billion. No exact valuation or pre/post-money basis was disclosed; the event date is month-precision.

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Relationships

• Rice Robotics

  Office Customer - RICE was used for multi-floor delivery at SoftBank headquarters.

• BALYO

  Current Parent - BALYO is a wholly owned SoftBank subsidiary following the Silver Bands 4 squeeze-out and Euronext delisting.

• SoftBank Corp.

  Indirect Parent; Direct Shareholder Is Softbank Group Japan Corporation - SoftBank Corp. is a separately listed subsidiary of SoftBank Group, held through SoftBank Group Japan Corporation.

• Berkshire Grey

  Current Parent After Take Private - SoftBank took Berkshire Grey private in a transaction valuing it at about $375 million and provided interim financing.

• ABB Robotics

  Signed Pending Acquisition; Not Current Owner - SoftBank agreed to acquire ABB Robotics for $5.375B; closing remains pending regulatory approval.

• Autonomous Solutions

  Partner - Autonomous Solutions and SoftBank Group formed a separately capitalized joint venture to commercialize OEM-agnostic autonomous construction equipment.

Context tags

• Robotics investment layer - Stack Layer
• Robotics startup investment - Workflow