ZURICH/TOKYO (Reuters) -SoftBank Group has agreed to buy the robotics business of Swiss engineering group ABB in a $5.4 billion deal, as the Japanese investor forges ahead with a strategy to fuse ...

If a human worker can do it, why not a robot? Swiss robotics giant ABB recently unveiled a new concept robot that showcases how the company is aiming to have humanoid machines work side by side with ...

YuMi, a human-friendly dual-arm robot design for assembly work alongside humans, is scheduled for release in 2015. The past year has been, in many ways, a landmark year for advances in robotics. I say ...

BRAMPTON, ON, Dec. 15, 2015 /CNW/ - Sheridan's Centre for Advanced Manufacturing and Design Technologies (CAMDT) has become the first facility in Canada to acquire ABB's YuMi® robot. A special event ...

European technology services giant ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd., better known as ABB, said today it has acquired a startup called Sevensense Robotics AG that specializes in improving the mobility and ...

Robots are certainly getting smaller and more collaborative, but that doesn’t mean the era of large industrial robots is over. In fact, ABB Robotics recently expanded its portfolio of large industrial ...

ABB, which competes with Japan's Fanuc Corp and Germany's Kuka, also wants to reduce its reliance on the automotive industry, where it generates around 40% of its sales in robotics. By John Revill ...

Autonomous mobile robots are now part of portfolio with robotics and machine automation products, to ad-dress opportunities and challenges presented by individualization and labor and supply-chain ...

Robots will make robots at a new ABB factory in China, which the Swiss engineering group said on Saturday it plans to build for $150 million in Shanghai as it defends its place as the country's ...