Son is not buying a robotics company — he is assembling AI infrastructure around physical automation in the way cloud providers assembled compute infrastructure a decade ago. The planned $100 billion Roze spinoff combines ABB Robotics with AI chips and data center automation under one holding structure, which means the unit competes not just with robot manufacturers but with anyone building the operational backbone of AI-driven manufacturing. The EU approved the acquisition , removing the last structural obstacle before close. Industrial customers that standardized on ABB equipment are now, by…