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    {
      "company": "SoftBank Robotics",
      "hq_country": "Japan",
      "website": "https://www.softbankrobotics.com/jp/",
      "status": "division",
      "what_it_builds": "SoftBank Group robotics unit (Japanese operating company SoftBank Robotics Corp., under SoftBank Robotics Group Corp.) develops and supplies the Pepper humanoid line for communication in homes, education, customer service and care. Its newest offering, Pepper+, adds AI agents and video analysis for retail customer engagement and other service applications.",
      "what_it_builds_source": "https://www.softbankrobotics.com/jp/news/press/20260202a/",
      "founded_year": "2014",
      "founded_source": "https://www.softbankrobotics.com/jp/corp/",
      "funding_usd": null,
      "funding_basis": "corporate division",
      "funding_source": null,
      "funding_note": "Corporate division: no standalone funding total summed. Entity scope is the Japanese operating company incorporated on 2014-07-24, not its holding company established in January 2012 (https://www.softbankrobotics.com/profile/). Excluded holding-company equity raises: 2015-06-18 strategic investment, Alibaba and Foxconn each JPY 14.5 billion (JPY 29 billion combined) in SoftBank Robotics Holdings Corp., not the Japanese operating company (https://www.alibabagroup.com/en-US/document-1491211848781922304); 2022-02-02 third-party share allotment, JPY 10 billion subscribed by IRIS OHYAMA in SoftBank Robotics Group Corp., likewise holding-company funding (https://www.softbankrobotics.com/ja/news/20220202a/). No USD conversion performed because neither raise is summed. No standalone post-money valuation or market capitalisation found; valuation date unavailable.",
      "latest_funding_date": null,
      "valuation_usd": null,
      "latest_model": "Pepper+ (AI-enhanced Pepper service-robot version)",
      "latest_model_year": "2026",
      "latest_model_source": "https://www.softbankrobotics.com/jp/news/press/20260202a/",
      "units_shipped": "20000",
      "units_shipped_source": "https://www.softbankrobotics.com/jp/set/data/news/press/20221018a/20221018_presentation.pdf",
      "units_shipped_note": "Published lower-bound cumulative sales: over 20,000 Pepper humanoids globally as of September 2022, including over 10,000 in Japan; company presentation dated 2022-10-18, slide 4. The numeric field records the stated threshold, not an exact count. Excludes non-humanoid cleaning and delivery robots. No newer company sales count located.",
      "as_of": "2026-11-03"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    "https://www.softbankrobotics.com/jp/corp/",
    "https://www.softbankrobotics.com/profile/",
    "https://www.softbankrobotics.com/jp/news/press/20260202a/",
    "https://www.softbankrobotics.com/jp/product/pepper/",
    "https://www.softbankrobotics.com/jp/set/data/news/press/20221018a/20221018_presentation.pdf",
    "https://www.alibabagroup.com/en-US/document-1491211848781922304",
    "https://www.softbankrobotics.com/ja/news/20220202a/"
  ]
}