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 £ ...

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 company is offering a partial solution to the problem, though, in the form of a pepper-picking robot. Known simply as L, the bot is the recipient of an Innovation Award at CES. Instead of ...

Pepper, the humanoid robot programmed to "understand" human emotions, is to take a new job - as a receptionist in two Belgian hospitals. It will be the robot's first foray into healthcare after ...

As such, some of the company’s customers have declined to renew their contracts with SoftBank, according to the Journal, which reported that used Peppers ... by making the robot look like ...

A touchscreen tablet attached to its chest brings "Pepper" to life. Cameras embedded in the robot's head allow it to uncannily track human faces in its line of sight. "How may I help you?" ...

Japanese robot Pepper is getting an intelligence upgrade via IBM’s Watson, but that doesn’t make interacting with the real world any less challenging. The humanoid will channel Watson’s ...

Pepper, the humanoid robot, is coming up with all sorts of ways to serve its human overlords, including in eldercare. The little rolling robot took to the stage at the Disrupt SF Hackathon today ...

Pepper, a robot capable of detecting human emotions, sold out in under a minute at the weekend, as Japanese consumers raced to be one of the first to own the "robot with a heart". Softbank ...