Mitsubishi Electric Corp. is backing construction-tech startup Akari Inc., the latest in a sector-wide quest for knowhow to fully automate factories and train robots to react to different situations.

ABB Robotics has been a major player in industrial automation for a long time, really since 1988. They’re based in ...

FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--China's adoption of robots continues at a rapid pace: The country has surpassed Germany and Japan in the ratio of robots to factory workers, taking third ...

SoftBank to buy ABB's robot business for $5.4 billion in push to merge AI and robotics SoftBank Group has agreed to buy the robotics business of Swiss engineering group ABB in a $5.4 billion deal, as ...