{"id":5319,"date":"2022-05-09T13:22:47","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T05:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apac.softbankrobotics.com\/apac\/?post_type=press_release&#038;p=5319"},"modified":"2025-04-09T13:22:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T05:22:04","slug":"softbank-robotics-and-kukan-enter-smart-cleaning-business-through-joint-venture-smartbx","status":"publish","type":"press_release","link":"https:\/\/apac.softbankrobotics.com\/apac\/press-release\/softbank-robotics-and-kukan-enter-smart-cleaning-business-through-joint-venture-smartbx\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank Robotics and Kukan Enter Smart Cleaning Business Through Joint Venture \u201cSmartBX\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"hdg-2 txt-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\">SoftBank Robotics and Kukan<br \/>\nEnter Smart Cleaning Business Through Joint Venture \u201cSmartBX\u201d<br \/>\n-Using digital data to achieve output-based cleaning and transparent standard pricing-<\/h2>\n<p class=\"txt-date\">May 9, 2022<br \/>\nSoftBank Robotics Corp. Kukan<br \/>\nSmartBX Co. , Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>SoftBank Robotics Corp. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Fumihide Tomizawa) announced on May 2, 2022 that Kukan Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Kita-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Hiroo Ariga) group We have invested in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartbx.co.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SmartBX Co., Ltd.<\/a>\u00a0(Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Hiroo Ariga; hereinafter referred to as &#8220;SmartBX&#8221;) and will enter the smart cleaning business today through SmartBX, which has become a joint venture.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.softbankrobotics.com\/jp\/news\/press\/20220509a\/\">here<\/a> to read the press release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4726,"template":"","region":[],"months":[33],"years":[82],"types":[47],"class_list":["post-5319","press_release","type-press_release","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","months-may","years-82","types-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SoftBank Robotics and Kukan Enter Smart Cleaning Business Through Joint Venture \u201cSmartBX\u201d - SoftBank<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apac.softbankrobotics.com\/apac\/press-release\/softbank-robotics-and-kukan-enter-smart-cleaning-business-through-joint-venture-smartbx\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SoftBank Robotics and Kukan Enter Smart Cleaning Business Through Joint Venture \u201cSmartBX\u201d - SoftBank\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"SoftBank Robotics and Kukan Enter Smart Cleaning Business Through Joint Venture \u201cSmartBX\u201d -Using digital data to achieve output-based cleaning and transparent standard pricing- May 9, 2022 SoftBank Robotics Corp. 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