Telecommunications may be SoftBank Corp.'s main business, but the telecom giant said it will focus more on the next big technologies — the "Internet of things," artificial intelligence and advanced robots — in the coming years.
While big data and cloud-computing are the primary trends in the mobile Internet industry today, SoftBank is taking aim at the future, Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son said during the firm's annual shareholders' meeting on Friday.
"We are thinking of three important fields — Internet of things, artificial intelligence and 'smart robots.' These three fields are what we will focus on most in the next five to 10 years," he said.