Japanese technology company Softbank denies it’s pulling the plug on its friendly, talking, bubble-headed Pepper robot. “There is absolutely no change to our Pepper business,” Softbank ...

Autumn and Chad Edwards also can control what the robot says to test different patterns of speaking and observe its interactions with humans from outside the room via cameras. Pepper is not for sale ...

Earlier this week it was widely reported that Softbank’s friendly-faced almost-humanoid Pepper robot was not long for this world, as the Japanese company’s subsidiary in France that had been ...

Photo: SoftBank Japanese telecom company SoftBank will open a mobile phone store in Tokyo staffed by Pepper humanoid robots to sell the merchandise. Home Browse Series Live Q&A WSJ Events From ...

SoftBank Group (OTCPK:SFTBY) (OTCPK:SFTBF) intends to build industrial parks in the U.S. featuring AI-equipped factories, ...

SoftBank plans to invest over $1 trillion in AI industrial parks in the US, with CEO Masayoshi Son discussing the idea with ...

He will just shake hands and that’s it.” That’s how it is when you’re the visionary leader of SoftBank, one of the world’s most influential and aggressive technology firms. Under Son’s ...

But the Japanese giant has other projects in the works, too. Whiz is the company's newly released robot vacuum. SoftBank calls it a "fully autonomous vacuum sweeper," similar to a Roomba ...