SoftBank Corp. Timeline

Events

• 2026-10-02 - Demonstration - SoftBank verifies airborne mobile coverage using MQ-9B SeaGuardian - The aircraft flew at 3,000 metres and provided ground coverage exceeding 5 kilometres in diameter. Outdoor measurements reached 20 Mbps downlink and 5 Mbps uplink using 5 MHz bandwidth. SoftBank built the pod to GA-ASI design and quality requirements… - source: softbank.jp
• 2026-07-13 - Demonstration - Yaskawa validates MOTOMAN NEXT with SoftBank AI cloud - The system stably manipulated wire harnesses, whose changing shape and grasp position complicate conventional robot control. The workflow connects collection of robot motion data with AI training, evaluation and deployment back to the hardware. SoftBank’s… - source: yaskawa-global.com
• 2026-05-12 - Award - SoftBank Corp., AIST and Mitsubishi Electric win AIRoA robot-model competition - Six teams trained robot models using an AIRoA dataset containing tens of thousands of hours of robot-motion data. The winning team automatically assessed and selected training sequences, then fine-tuned its model on the curated data. Evaluation included… - source: airoa.org
• 2026-02-27 - Demonstration - SoftBank and Ericsson demonstrate AI-RAN control for physical AI - The system dynamically switches AI processing between the robot and an AI-RAN multi-access edge-computing platform. Ericsson network slicing and priority handling adjust connectivity to latency, throughput and reliability requirements. The work targets… - source: softbank.jp