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 ...

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 ...

Maybe that’s a good thing. Second case: Softbank has created a robot called [Pepper] that supposedly can understand human emotions. You know the license agreements you get with everything you ...

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 ...

Its maker, the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank ... The 4ft, 62lb robot was mainly used as a research and educational tool for schools, colleges and universities. Some of Pepper's other roles ...

FUKUOKA--Dancing robot dogs named Spot and Pepper humanoid robots have been cheering on the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks baseball team in the absence of flesh and blood fans and cheerleaders. The ...