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 ...

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 ...

Autumn and Chad Edwards also can control what the robot says to test different patterns of speaking and observe its interactions with humans from outside the room via cameras. Pepper is not for sale ...

SoftBank, which propped up Pepper sales by placing the robot in its mobile phone stores, has shifted focus to products such as cleaning robot Whiz. The French business was increasingly sidelined ...

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 ...

Photo: SoftBank Japanese telecom company SoftBank will open a mobile phone store in Tokyo staffed by Pepper humanoid robots to sell the merchandise. Home Browse Series Live Q&A WSJ Events From ...

The Japanese company halted assembly of the 198,000 yen (US$1,790 or RM7,433) robot in August after inventory piled up, but may decide to resume production in future, a SoftBank spokeswoman said.

He will just shake hands and that’s it.” That’s how it is when you’re the visionary leader of SoftBank, one of the world’s most influential and aggressive technology firms. Under Son’s ...

SoftBank Group (OTCPK:SFTBY) (OTCPK:SFTBF) intends to build industrial parks in the U.S. featuring AI-equipped factories, Nikkei reported. The Japanese investing giant will potentially pledge ...

Bear Robotics hopes to mass produce Penny, the robot food runner, after raising $32 million in Series A funding this week. The round was led by Softbank, which has a reputation for investing in ...