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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

He isn’t a work robot, but more of an emotional companion for people. Pepper has his own evolving emotions which “are influenced by people’s facial expressions and words, as well as his ...

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 ...

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 ...

A robot designed to read—and more importantly, respond to—users’ moods was unveiled this week by Softbank, a Japanese internet company. Pepper, who stands 4 feet tall and weighs about 62 ...

He isn’t a work robot, but more of an emotional companion for people. Pepper has his own evolving emotions which “are influenced by people’s facial expressions and words, as well as his ...

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 ...