FOR SALE: The Foundation Is Built: Seeking a Visionary Steward for Asian Robotics Review’s Next Chapter!

A Decade of Award-Winning, Independent Journalism & Global Reach (2016-2026)

Steward, Scaler, Bridge Builder

We are officially opening a structured, transparent process to transition ownership of Asian Robotics Review LLC, which includes the publication, podcast, content archives, and subscriber network.

As automation becomes critical to industries from healthcare to defense, demand for timely, nuanced reporting is surging—a need this platform uniquely fulfills. The platform has reached a scale where its distribution, audience trust, and deep content archive deserve a commercial infrastructure—a team with the sales, events, and research capacity to expand it to its full potential.

Why Not?
The foundation is built, the 10-year legacy of independent journalism is established, and the platform is primed for its next phase of growth. We are now inviting formal expressions of interest to transition ownership of Asian Robotics Review LLC.

See the full offering: Seeking Growth Scalers for Asian Robotics Review and This Is Robotics

Or write to us: BuyARR@asianroboticsreview.com Or, use the reply form

Heartfelt Thanks for Making This Is Robotics the #1 Global Robotics News Podcast

Join me, your host Tom Green, for our annual Holiday Special exploring how robotics transforms lives, rebuilds cities, and lifts nations. This year's theme showcases four extraordinary stories of social change through automation.

This year's theme is one close to my heart: "Robotics Driving Social Change."

We begin in India, where three startups—Genrobotics, Solinas Integrity, and Sakar Robotics—are using robots to end manual scavenging, one of the world's most dangerous jobs, giving 58,000 workers dignity and safety. Then we travel to Tokyo, where Silicon Valley legend Andy Rubin launches Genki Robotics, betting he can revive Japan's humanoid robotics industry.

Next, we explore Pittsburgh's remarkable transformation from dying Steel City to global robotics hub, anchored by Carnegie Mellon's pioneering research.

Finally, we examine Deng Xiaoping's 1978 reforms that lifted 300 million Chinese from poverty and positioned China as an automation superpower.

Read the full articles at Asian Robotics Review:

1. "Fatbergs", Excreta & Pipe-Cleaning Robots -
2. Andy Rubin's Bold Bet on Japan's Humanoid Future -
3. The Fall & Rise of Pittsburgh: From Dying Steel Town to Global Robotics Hub
4. The Rise of Deng Xiaoping: China's Christmas Miracle & Best Gift Ever! -

Heartfelt Thanks for Making This Is Robotics the #1 Global Robotics News Podcast

Welcome to Our Halloween Program 2025

Yes, 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 SoftBank

The 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 1966

As 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 READING

ABB Bails on Robotics

SoftBank, Robotics/AI & Takaichi Converge

How the Internet Came to Be
The Untold Story of Everything Digital

Heartfelt Thanks for Making This Is Robotics the #1 Global Robotics News Podcast