Pepper the robot is taking early retirement. The humanoid’s maker, Japan’s SoftBank Group, has reportedly stopped producing Pepper due to weak demand. Pepper had been touted as the harbinger of a ...

Robots may already be taking our jobs in some industries, but humans offering customer service on the shop floor look as if they’re safe for a while yet. The judgment comes after witnessing a recent ...

Whether it’s robots or smartphones, AI or premium audio products, Japan has always been at the forefront of any conversation about technology. We recently spent several weeks in Tokyo discovering not ...

Softbank's Pepper will detect sadness based on expression and voice tone, then tell a joke to cheer you up. Artificial intelligence is still a work in progress, but if you're simply looking for ...

James Vincent is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. The UK Parliament caused a bit of a stir this week with the news that it would play host to its ...

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. Pepper ...

Pepper the priest costs less than a quarter of the price of a human priest, but will anyone take the plunge and book the robot for a funeral? There are industry gatherings for all sectors, and that ...

Sprint’s (NYSE:S) latest customer relations employee is a robot. Sprint has started to use Pepper, a four-foot tall humanoid robot, to assist customers at the telecommunications company’s retail ...

Robots made to serve as personal assistants are improving all the time, but the reasoning behind their decision-making is still something of a mystery to the everyday user. In an effort to improve ...

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 ...