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 ...

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 ...

Last year we saw the new Softbank Pepper robot, the robot is due to launch later this year and now the company has revealed pricing for this new robot, the device will cost around $9,000 in total.

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 ...

TOKYO, June 28 (Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T), opens new tab is slashing jobs at its global robotics business and has stopped producing its Pepper robot, according to sources and ...

Pepper the robot is taking early retirement. The humanoid’s maker, Japan’s SoftBank Group, has reportedly stopped producing Pepper due to weak demand. Pepper had been touted as the harbinger ...

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 ...

TOKYO, March 9 (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 ...

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.

Softbank's adorable robot may be short and cute, but it'll still cost the price of a secondhand car to bring one into your home. The Japanese network has revealed that the first Pepper devices on ...