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According to a post on X by @zijing_wu, which relays Financial Times reporting, China's NDRC told SoftBank it would block its $5.4 billion takeover of ABB's robotics division after a change of heart. The post says ABB has since posted its confirmation of the decision. China is ABB's biggest robotics market, where the division makes most of its robots and employs about 12,700 people.
According to a post on X by @zijing_wu, which relays Financial Times reporting, China's NDRC told SoftBank it would block its $5.4 billion takeover of ABB's robotics division after a change of heart. The post says ABB has since posted its confirmation of the decision. China is ABB's biggest robotics market, where the division makes most of its robots and employs about 12,700 people.
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The FT's Zijing Wu reports China's NDRC told SoftBank it would block the deal after a change of heart, and has since posted ABB's confirmation. China is ABB's biggest robotics market, where it makes most of its robots and employs about 12,700 people. Why it matters: Beijing can stop a Western robotics deal simply...
The post frames the decision as showing that Beijing can stop a Western robotics deal because most of the business sits inside China. For SoftBank, ABB and investors in robotics assets with large Chinese operations, this points to regulatory risk tied to where production and staff are located. Watch for official statements from ABB and SoftBank on the next steps for the deal.
Hardware and robotics watchers may want to track whether this becomes a product, benchmark, or deployment signal.
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