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 ...

USA TODAY was the first media outlet to visit the company's new base of robotics operations, home to 40 sales execs and engineers. You may have read about Pepper over the past months.

The robot revolution is coming. ... But all that charm won't make up for the fact that Pepper isn't ready for your home. Like other potential companion robots, it gets easily confused.

This 'emotional' robot is coming to the US — and it wants to live in your home By Danielle Muoio 2016-08-01T13:51:00Z ...

Over 7,000 Peppers greet guests, answer questions, and play with kids in Japanese homes. And by the end of the year it'll be on sale in the US---but not before software engineers here get a crack ...

Meet Pepper, a robot that can interact with people. SoftBank Robotics, its manufacturer, ... “That’s been the vision since day one, and Pepper is already in homes in Japan. ...

Pepper the robot talks to itself to improve its interactions with people. Cell Press. Journal iScience DOI 10.1016/j.isci.2021.102371 ...

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 ...

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’s play.

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’s ...

The Wall Street Journal reports on the troubled life of Pepper the robot, launched in 2014 by SoftBank. Expectations were so inflated back in 2014 that the first batch of 1,000 robots sold out in ...