Pepper, SoftBank Corp.'s humanoid robot, greeted customers at a Taiwan bank and a life insurer on Thursday, one of the first countries outside Japan to use the shiny machine in a front-line role with ...

Pepper, a humanoid robot receptionist, is the latest employee at Belgium's AZ Damiaan hospital in Ostend. HELLO MY NAME IS PEPPER CAN I HELP U WITH SOMETHING? It's easy to see why this humanoid robot ...

SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son was nothing if not talkative during the briefing held on June 18 in advance of the public release of Pepper, SoftBank's humanoid robot. Son emphasized the advances his ...

TOKYO Kaname Hayashi, who led the team that developed SoftBank Group's Pepper humanoid robot, is again in the spotlight, having recently set up a venture company to create a device that has a genuine ...

SoftBank Group Corp.'s humanoid robot Pepper has taken on various roles since its mass-market debut in 2015. The 1.2-meter tall robots with round white heads have been deployed to banks, sushi shops ...

SoftBank's humanoid, emotion-sensing, rather talkative Pepper Robot will start offering concierge service at Mizuho Bank, one of the Japan's major banks, in July. Pepper the robot, as a system, in ...