Go to most university robotics departments and you'll find either Pepper, the iconic three-wheeled humanoid robot, or its smaller two-legged ... and was offloaded by long-time Japanese owner Softbank.

Pepper the robot is coming to our shores later this year, and its creators want the help of Android developers to help make it smarter. Japan-based SoftBank Robotics announced Wednesday at Google ...

(Bloomberg) -- SoftBank Group Corp. is introducing a new robot, but unlike the talkative Pepper that went on sale three years ago, this one will skip the chit chat and just mop the floors.

TOKYO (Reuters) - An auditor has questioned SoftBank's bookkeeping at the French unit that designed its Pepper robot, documents show, casting doubt on the Japanese firm's treatment of a subsidiary ...

French robot Pepper, detecting whether people are wearing face masks and if not, instructs them to wear them, is displayed at French robotics developer SoftBank Robotics in Paris as the ...

TOKYO — An auditor has questioned SoftBank’s bookkeeping at the French unit that designed its Pepper robot, documents show, casting doubt on the Japanese firm’s treatment of a subsidiary it is now ...

TOKYO, July 21 (Reuters) - When SoftBank Group Corp's (9984.T), opens new tab CEO Masayoshi Son unveiled the wide-eyed android Pepper in 2014, he painted a vision, once confined to science fiction ...

One company tried to train Pepper to recite scriptures ... One robotics expert told the publication that SoftBank might have misstepped by making the robot look like a human, since that tends ...

The company hired child-sized robot Pepper, clothed it in the vestments of Buddhist clergy and programmed it to chant several sutras, or Buddhist scriptures, depending on the sect of the deceased.

Click here to subscribe for free.) 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 ...

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