The path to mainstream home robots is strewn with the battery-drained corpses of AIBO and lesser-known, Dalek-esque robots like Wakamaru. But now Japan's SoftBank, flush from the purchase of ...

Pepper robots dispatched to a few Japanese homes have been programmed to read bedtime stories to children and teach languages to adults.

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. The little ...

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 ...

Pepper the Robot Is Coming to Work in U.S. Retail Stores, and Then Your Home Meet Pepper, a robot that can interact with people. SoftBank Robotics, its manufacturer, talks to Inc. about how ...

Pepper embodies the ambitions of SoftBank Robotics, an Asian joint venture formed by a trio of major technology companies that’s aiming to put its personable robots in businesses and homes ...

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 ...

Pepper, a multipurpose human-shaped robot, design by Softbank, is the first robot to be adopted in Japanese homes. The diminutive droid’s latest gig is at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. The ...

Although hearing the inner voice of robots enriches the human-robot interaction, some people might find it inefficient because the robot spends more time completing tasks when it talks to itself.

SAN FRANCISCO — While merrily chirping, dancing and posing for selfies, a robot named Pepper looks like another expensive toy at a San Francisco mall. But don’t dismiss it as mere child… ...

SoftBank Robotics America plans to launch Pepper in North America later this year, but in the meantime developers can get to know the humanoid robot by visiting her at b8ta in Palo Alto.

Pepper is a robot that moves around on wheels and can tell how you're feeling, and it'll send your emails, too.