SoftBank Robotics

SoftBank Robotics Group Corp. is a Tokyo-based robotics company formed in 2012 when SoftBank Group acquired Aldebaran Robotics of France. The company develops autonomous humanoid robots for social and commercial interaction, including Pepper (the world's first mass-produced humanoid robot per Guinness World Records) and NAO (widely used in education and research). SoftBank Robotics has approximately 201-500 employees and its robots are deployed across more than 70 countries. The company also expanded into commercial cleaning with the Whiz autonomous vacuum, with over 35,000 systems in use globally.