Japanese technology company Softbank denies it’s pulling the plug on its friendly, talking, bubble-headed Pepper robot ... but the move was routine and did not spell a death knell for ...

Would you like to know more about me?" Pepper says that it is a humanoid robot and its purpose is to interact with humans. "To do that, I have cameras and microphones in my head. I have three wheels, ...

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 £ ...

A small humanoid robot Nao costs between 5,000 and 10,000 euros, while the slightly larger Pepper costs between 17,000 and 20,000 euros. Aldebaran Robotics has never been really successful since ...

A Japanese company has programmed a popular robot, Pepper, to perform Buddhist funeral rites. But will society ever accept artificial intelligence as religious authorities and ritual specialists?

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 ...