At a recent innovation festival, researchers from the University of Canberra introduced attendees to “Pepper,” a humanoid ...

SAN FRANCISCO – The four-foot tall robot whirling around the new offices of SoftBank Robotics America could well be your big-box store greeter of the near future. “Hi, I’m Pepper,” says ...

If early indications are anything to go by, Pepper the "emotional" robot is going to be a seriously big hit with consumers in Japan. Maker SoftBank said it took just one minute to sell its first ...

And rather than starting from scratch, Nissei instead modified an existing robot in the form of SoftBank's Pepper robot. As Hannah Gould, a researcher at the Japan Foundation, points out in the ...

Softbank's Pepper robot has been repurposed in some places to help COVID-19 patients. Pepper is the company's humanoid robot, designed to work at airports and malls. Visit Business Insider's ...

Aldebaran made the Pepper and Nao humanoid robots, which were popular in education and service uses but struggled to make ...

Pepper is a cute, wisecracking personal robot designed to bring joy to everyone, and Japanese mobile carrier SoftBank wants people to start buying it next year for the price of a high-end PC.

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.

SoftBank says Pepper will be able to staff its stores, mind babies, and ultimately “increase the joy” of the families it joins. “A robot that behaves autonomously, powered by love,” reads ...

Granted, Softbank only made 1,000 units of the $1,600 (plus $200 per month) robot. Still SoftBank’s “emotionally-aware” robot Pepper, just went on sale on June 20th, but it has already sold out.

SoftBank's Pepper robot has ceased production and is unlikely to return, insiders say, a premature retirement for the anthropomorphized robo-humanoid. Revealed back in 2014, Pepper was billed as ...

FILE - In this May 25, 2016, file photo, Pepper, the robot of Softbank Robotics Europe, performs during the Innorobo European summit, an event dedicated to the service robotics industry in ...