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 ...

A small humanoid robot Nao costs between 5,000 and 10,000 euros, while the slightly larger Pepper costs between 17,000 and 20,000 euros. Aldebaran Robotics has never been really successful since ...

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 ...

Meet Pepper, a humanoid robot that reads the emotions of people it meets and reacts to their moods using its voice, arm and hand gestures, and changes in eye color to express itself. Pepper also ...

A highlights in the Centre is Pepper, a robot designed to provide information and infotainment solutions to visitors in a ...