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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SoftBank. Alibaba and Foxconn also invested hundreds of millions in the effort to make robotics a ubiquitous part of daily life. Yet it was not to be. You still find the occasional Pepper in a ...

The team programmed a humanoid robot named Pepper, supplied by Softbank Robotics, to demonstrate a high degree of social interaction and adaptive behaviours in different social situations.

Japan's Softbank plans to list its mobile ... The firm, run by Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son, moved into robotics and developed the human-like Pepper in 2014. Some of its deals include ...

An attendee uses the Samsung Pay app on a Samsung Galaxy smartphone to interact with SoftBank Group's Pepper humanoid robot, on the second day of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain ...

The CEO of U.S. semiconductor giant Nvidia Corp. expressed high hopes for Japan’s role in the artificial intelligence robotics revolution during talks with Softbank Group Corp.’s CEO on Nov. 13.