Earlier this week it was widely reported that Softbank’s friendly-faced almost-humanoid Pepper robot was not long for this world, as the Japanese company’s subsidiary in France that had been ...

Meet Pepper, a humanoid robot that reads the emotions of people it meets and reacts to their moods using its voice, arm and hand gestures, and changes in eye color to express itself. Pepper also ...

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 £ ...

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A Japanese company has programmed a popular robot, Pepper, to perform Buddhist funeral rites. But will society ever accept ...

The Government of Japan has been promoting startups to boost innovation and growth, and the pool of potential unicorns, those ...

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Japanese technology company Softbank denies it’s pulling the plug on its friendly, talking, bubble-headed Pepper robot. “There is absolutely no change to our Pepper business,” Softbank ...

However, today, the future is yesterday and social robots are beginning to live with us from Pepper to Jibo to now Zenbo. According to Knight’s research, “Robots do not require eyes, arms or legs for ...

Some robots are already turning up in unexpected places, including a bell pepper farm in Shintomi, Miyazaki Prefecture, on the main southern island of Kyushu. The farm is run by Agrist ...