We’ve seen Pepper, the cutesy robotic butler, provide customer service, offer info at train stations, sell smartphones and take your Pizza Hut order. Now, Pepper has a new public health mission. The ...

Japanese tech firm SoftBank is launching an online app store for Pepper, a humanoid robot that can read and respond to human emotions. In addition, the company will open four new Pepper for Biz ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More SoftBank Robotics announced today that its Pepper robot will soon support ...

SoftBank's Pepper robot has ceased production and is unlikely to return, insiders say, a premature retirement for the anthropomorphized robo-humanoid. Revealed back in 2014, Pepper was billed as ...

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 ...

Robots may already be taking our jobs in some industries, but humans offering customer service on the shop floor look as if they’re safe for a while yet. The judgment comes after witnessing a recent ...

Pepper, a multipurpose human-shaped robot, design by Softbank, is the first robot to be adopted in Japanese homes. Image used with permission by copyright holder The diminutive droid’s latest gig is ...

TOKYO -- The Japanese robot "Pepper" has been programmed to perform a new role: funeral services for Buddhists. SoftBank's humanoid robot "Pepper," featured last month on "CBSN: On Assignment," was on ...

Pepper the priest costs less than a quarter of the price of a human priest, but will anyone take the plunge and book the robot for a funeral? There are industry gatherings for all sectors, and that ...

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 ...