The adorable Pepper robot unveiled a year ago by Japan-based mobile and telecommunications company SoftBank has finally been made available to consumers, and it's been a roaring success. According to ...

If SoftBank Robotics has its way, Pepper the humanoid robot will not only soon offer cooking advice when you shop for olive oil at your local grocery store, it will also read your facial expressions ...

WASHINGTON - On a gloomy October morning, Smithsonian staff members at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden woke up one of their employees from an office and headed to the third floor. Soon after ...

Pepper the robot is taking early retirement. The humanoid’s maker, Japan’s SoftBank Group, has reportedly stopped producing Pepper due to weak demand. Pepper had been touted as the harbinger of a ...

Based on a recent demo in Tokyo, however, Softbank's Watson-powered robot still has some learning to do. Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better ...

Pepper the robot has a new gig at HSBC's New York City flagship store. The customer engagement robot won't be a teller, but instead will have job responsibilities such as "streamline branch operations ...

Pepper the robot seems to always be learning new skills, from working at a train station to, um, professional cosplay; but the latest is probably going to be the most lucrative, because Pepper has ...

SAN FRANCISCO — While merrily chirping, dancing and posing for selfies, a robot named Pepper looks like another expensive toy at a San Francisco mall. But don’t dismiss it as mere child’s play. Pepper ...

Japanese tech firm SoftBank has announced that its emotion-sensing robot, Pepper, will go on sale in Japan from June 20. The company says that Pepper is the world’s first personal robot that can read ...

Sprint’s (NYSE:S) latest customer relations employee is a robot. Sprint has started to use Pepper, a four-foot tall humanoid robot, to assist customers at the telecommunications company’s retail ...

Robots are getting smarter by the day. The French robotics company Aldebaran brought Pepper–its “thinking robot”–onstage at the South by Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, Texas, Sunday to ...