It wasn’t so long ago that Pepper was the face of future home robotics ... a diminutive and child-like robot with basic speech recognition and conversation skills, the ability to recognize ...

Meet Pepper, a humanoid robot that reads the emotions of people it meets and reacts ... offering recommendations for wine, books and recipes. Some homes overseas have their very own Pepper. Closing a ...

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About 10 percent of care homes in Japan use any sort of robot—including monitoring systems or mobility aids—let alone a ...

How does a robot perform as a boss at work? The results of research by Polish scientists published in Cognition, Technology & Work suggest that ...

The manufacturer of the humanoid robots Nao and Pepper, Aldebaran Robotics, has slipped into insolvency. Whether and how it ...

Pepper is a robot receptionist working at a hospital in Belgium. It can speak 19 languages and was brought in to improve social and health care. It was designed by company Zora Bots and costs £ ...

Pepper robots, which have expressive hands but move around on wheels, have been cheering and dancing in the stands for the home games of the Softbank Hawks Japanese professional baseball team in ...