This Is Robotics: Radio News

Author: Tom Green

This Is Robotics: Radio News is a new and very different robotics news program. One that were very excited about, and know that youre going like a lotand also find super useful. Radio News is a compilation of the best in robotics news, views and interviews gathered worldwide and presented as a 30-minute podcast. The global best in robotics! Now you can consume the best in global robotics news while driving to work, waiting to board a plane, or at the breakfast table. Miss something? Stream it again. Want to go deeper? Go online to the This Is Robotics news page for the very same articles, as text, a bit longer, with links and references. Welcome to the best news in robotics. You're going to love what you hear!
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This Is Robotics: Radio News #41 (October 2025) Halloween Episode
Friday, 31 October, 2025

Welcome to Our Halloween Program 2025Yes, it’s Halloween, when people dress up like someone or something else, and when the dead come back to visit the living. Which, in a way is kind of apropos of today’s podcast.ABB Sells to SoftBankThe recent sale of ABB’s robotics division to Japan’s SoftBank. Was that a normal sale of one company to another, or was it something else? Was it part of a disguise? Was it part of an elaborate plan for Japan’s moribund AI and smart robotics industry to return to the world of the living? Was the sale a disguise to get Japan back into competition with its neighbors China and Korea. In an age of conspiracy theories, maybe this is one of them. Strange that it all happened in October, and much of it very close to Halloween.The Real Internet Origin Story 1966As a program bonus, we look back at the Internet before the Internet as we know it, 1966. When two engineers pioneering the Internet resolved to democratize the technology for the rest of us. LINKS FOR FURTHER READINGABB Bails on RoboticsSoftBank, Robotics/AI & Takaichi ConvergeHow the Internet Came to BeThe Untold Story of Everything DigitalHeartfelt Thanks for Making This Is Robotics the #1 Global Robotics News Podcast