Pepper is about four feet tall, looks like a person (except for the wheels where its legs should be), and has more emotional intelligence than your average toddler. It uses facial recognition to ...

When someone is being stiff and acting emotionless, we may have to quit calling them a robot. Softbank, a Japanese Internet and telecommunications company, introduced the world Thursday to Pepper ...

SAN FRANCISCO – The four-foot tall robot whirling around the new offices of SoftBank Robotics America could well be your big-box store greeter of the near future. “Hi, I’m Pepper,” says ...

Buyers of a robot engineered to be emotionally responsive to humans have been banned from having sex with it. The creators of the robot have specified in their user contract that buyers must not ...

Japanese technology company Softbank denies it’s pulling the plug on its friendly, talking, bubble-headed Pepper robot.

Ever feel like no one really understands you? Well “Pepper” could be about to change all that. That’s because Pepper is actually a robot and touted as the world’s first with the ability to ...

A 4-foot tall humanoid robot named Pepper, made by Aldebaran, a SoftBank company, interacts with people in hospitals, hotels, and homes. TechRepublic's comprehensive guide explains how Pepper works.

That’s the future of retail promised by Pepper. The artificial intelligence-backed robot is already found in stores like Nestle and Nissan across Japan and Europe.

Pepper is heading to the robot graveyard, but memories of the humanoid will live on. These are our favorite moments from the droid's seven-year life.

They then asked people to set the dinner table with Pepper according to etiquette rules to study how Pepper's self-dialogue skills influence human-robot interactions.

People are still lining up to see Pepper for themselves — it’s very much a demonstration right now, rather than putting the robot to actual work.

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 ...