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 ...

Mastercard has announced that it is powering the first commercial application of SoftBank’s humanoid robot Pepper, creating a service in Pizza Hut restaurants in Asia. The service will have Mastercard ...

SoftBank Robotics and HSBC have partnered to roll out humanoid banking assistants, first in New York and now in Los Angeles. We stopped by to see Pepper in action in Beverly Hills. On a recent visit ...