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 ...

Pepper is able to speak English, French, Japanese and Spanish, with more languages due to follow. Around 200 robot apps will be available for download from the dedicated app store, such as the ...

The robot revolution is coming. But instead of death machines dragging us off to work in their plutonium mines, we'll get helpful little friends like Pepper from SoftBank and Aldebaran.

And rather than starting from scratch, Nissei instead modified an existing robot in the form of SoftBank's Pepper robot. As Hannah Gould, a researcher at the Japan Foundation, points out in the ...

To explore how inner speech might impact a robot's actions, the researchers built a robot called Pepper that speaks to itself. They then asked people to set the dinner table with Pepper according ...

The company hired child-sized robot Pepper, clothed it in the vestments of Buddhist clergy and programmed it to chant several sutras, or Buddhist scriptures, depending on the sect of the deceased.

Japanese telecom giant SoftBank halted production of Pepper the robot in August of 2020, according to a new report from Reuters. And it seems unlikely that new ones will ever roll off the ...

Meet Pepper: a robot designed to be your buddy. Pepper is actually the very first humanoid robot capable of recognizing human emotions and reacting to them. Feeling down? Pepper might do a little ...

Softbank's Pepper robot has been repurposed in some places to help COVID-19 patients. Pepper is the company's humanoid robot, designed to work at airports and malls. Visit Business Insider's ...

Pepper is about four feet tall ... a specialist in human-robot interaction at MIT. In other words, robots that look like people (or animals) get treated like people (or animals).

The researchers suggest that the transparency could help establish human-robot trust. Comparing Pepper's performance with and without inner speech, Pipitone and Chella discovered that the robot ...