| January 2012 |
Established SoftBank Robotics Group Corp. |
| January 2012 |
Established a subsidiary in the United States |
| June 2014 |
Launched a humanoid robot, Pepper |
| July 2014 |
Established SoftBank Robotics Corp. |
| August 2014 |
Made Asratec Corp. a subsidiary |
| February 2015 |
Began sales of Pepper for Developers |
| June 2015 |
Secured investments of JPY 14.5 billion each from Alibaba Group and Foxconn Technology Group |
| October 2016 |
Won the 7th Robot Award, Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications Award, for Pepper* |
| November 2016 |
Changed company name to SoftBank Robotics Group Corp. |
| November 2017 |
Entered the commercial cleaning robot business* |
| April 2019 |
Launched Pepper for Biz 3.0 and began accepting reservations for Pepper for Home* |
| May 2019 |
Began sales of the AI cleaning robot “Whiz”* |
| July 2019 |
Established wholly owned subsidiaries in Hong Kong and Singapore |
| September 2019 |
Established a wholly owned subsidiary in the United Kingdom |
| October 2019 |
Established a wholly owned subsidiary in Australia |
| December 2019 |
Opened Pepper PARLOR, where humans and robots work together, at Tokyu Plaza Shibuya on December 5* |
| June 2020 |
Exceeded 10,000 units in worldwide cumulative sales of the AI cleaning robot Whiz |
| July 2020 |
Launched the AI cleaning robot Whiz in South Korea |
| September 2020 |
Launched “Servi”, a food delivery and transport robot |
| November 2020 |
Received recognition for Servi as a leading example of serving robots, ranking 8th in Nikkei Trendy’s 2021 Hit Product Forecast |
| January 2021 |
Relocated head office to 1-7-1 Kaigan, Minato-ku, Tokyo |
| April 2021 |
Entered into a partnership with SB Logistics and Berkshire Grey |
| June 2021 |
Entered into a global distribution agreement with AutoStore |
| September 2021 |
Received Guinness World Records™ certification for a robot cheering squad of 100 Pepper robots |
| February 2022 |
Entered into a capital and business alliance with IRIS OHYAMA Inc. |
| March 2022 |
Established SmartBX Inc., a joint venture with Kukan Inc., through subsidiary SoftBank Robotics Corp.* |
| May 2022 |
Ranked No. 1 worldwide in sales of commercial indoor service robots |
| September 2022 |
Launched a logistics automation business utilizing AI and robotics technologies |
| October 2022 |
Announced the Robot Integrator (RI) Strategy |
| December 2023 |
Made Gourmet X Corp. a subsidiary |
| March 2024 |
Ranked No. 1 in two categories in the “2024 Autonomous Mobile Robot Potential Analysis” market research report: domestic manufacturer share for commercial cleaning robots and primary vendor share for serving robots |
| May 2024 |
Invested in Australia’s Millennium Services Group Ltd through the acquisition of 100% of its shares by an SPC established by SBRSG.* |
| May 2025 |
Entered into a strategic partnership with ARC |
| June 2025 |
Entered into a strategic partnership with Australia-based icetana AI Limited |
| November 2025 |
Entered into a capital and business alliance with RSC Co., Ltd. |
| November 2025 |
Announced STEAMA, a steam cooking robot |
| February 2026 |
Received Guinness World Records™ recognition for Pepper as the world’s first mass-produced humanoid robot |
