SOFTBANK ROBOTICS TO MAKE A CLEAN SWEEP OF KOREAN MARKET

• SoftBank Robotics in a formal announcement Tuesday said it will launch operations in South Korea with its artificial intelligence-enabled vacuum-cleaning robot nicknamed ‘Whiz’.
• The company aims to reduce the margin in assistive robotics market here, which is currently spearheaded by LG Electronics.

Whiz is the Japanese firm’s second robot which saw the light of the day in its comm....