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 ...

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 £ ...

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 ...

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 ...

In addition to Pepper, Asimo and others, Panasonic has created a hair-washing robot, a drug delivery robot, a robotic bed, and HOSPI-Rimo, a robot with a touchscreen that helps hospital patients ...

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 ...

A TORY MSP was last night accused of using an AI app to table almost 1,000 Holyrood questions in a month — including bizarre requests about salt and pepper ... put in so many robot-like queries ...