SoftBank’s Robot Gambit: A $6 Billion Bet on Household Androids

Masayoshi Son has never been one for half-measures. The SoftBank Group founder’s latest move — a reported $6 billion bid for a majority stake in OpenAI-backed humanoid robot maker 1X Technologies — fits a pattern that has defined the Japanese conglomerate’s reinvention: aggressive capital deployment at the intersection of artificial intelligence and physical hardware. The […] The post SoftBank’s…