SoftBank is reportedly in early talks to back an $800m Agile Robots round
SoftBank, it seems, is not done buying robots. The Japanese group is in early talks to back a new funding round of around $800m (€700m) for Agile Robots, the Munich startup that builds robot arms, warehouse machines, and humanoids, according to Bloomberg. SoftBank would contribute more than $300m of that total, people familiar with the […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
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