But technically, Pepper is an "it." "In Japan, where Pepper is much more deployed already, it's 'Pepper-kun,' which is 'young boy.' " Using Pepper in their robotics lab on the second floor of Sprau ...

RoboCup winning humanoid robot 'Pepper' developed by The Magic Lab (L); Steve Wozniak interacting with 'Pepper' (R) A dedicated team of university researchers and students from The Magic Lab saw ...

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 ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Telecom giant SoftBank has developed a robot that can read and react to human emotions. It's called "Pepper," and it's a humanoid robot designed to interact and ...

making appearances at events around the world Pepper, the friendly little humanoid robot that was launched to much fanfare back in 2014, looks as if it may be retired - for now at least.

An envelope. It indicates the ability to send an email. 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.

The first thing Pepper told me was that he was running out of battery. “He’s got about 15 minutes before he dies,” Emanuel Nunez Sardinha, a Ph.D. candidate in robotics at Bristol Robotics Laboratory, ...

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 ...

Emirates NBD, one of the leading banking groups in the region, is introducing 'Pepper'*, an artificial intelligence robot that will add a fun element to customer engagement. Pepper will make his ...