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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

In the last two years, the CEO of SoftBank, (which controls Sprint here in the U.S.) has publicly stated that they had spent about $200,000,000 to develop their Pepper personal robot for family care.

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 ...