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 ...

About 10 percent of care homes in Japan use any sort of robot—including monitoring systems or mobility aids—let alone a humanoid. Production of Pepper was paused in 2020 due to lack of demand.

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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While this is extremely relevant for selling techniques, Softbank is most proud of Pepper being the first robot to be adopted into homes in Japan. It is believed that Pepper is more than a ...

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

The home trials new tech that could benefit ... Downstairs, a humanoid robot called Pepper was leading an activity session for around 30 day centre attendees. Speaking in a cheerful voice, she ...

UBTech Robotics has announced a partnership with a major Chinese furniture retail chain to sell 10,000 robots, including models specifically designed for elderly care, marking the firm's latest ...

A series of QUT research studies have shed light on the importance of involving individuals with intellectual disabilities in ...

The idea is it would be equipped with sophisticated computer-vision capabilities so it could navigate a home like a ... every other domestic robot -- from the versatile Pepper to the adorable ...

SoftBank, which propped up Pepper sales by placing the robot in its mobile phone stores, has shifted focus to products such as cleaning robot Whiz. The French business was increasingly sidelined ...