Pepper can also play games, keep track of calendar events, and pull information from the internet, in addition to keeping you company. But the robot cannot do any chores around the house.

Pepper is meant to assist and entertain. With a tablet-like computer on its chest and a series of sensors, cameras, and microphones, Pepper can recognize and react to different emotions.

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 £ ...

Pepper functions through cloud-based artificial intelligence. SoftBank and Aldebaran envision the robot being sold overseas eventually. After all, Pepper is quite the polyglot, speaking 17 languages.

TOKYO (AP) — 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 ...

The robot revolution is coming. But instead of death machines dragging us off to work in their plutonium mines, we'll get helpful little friends like Pepper from SoftBank and Aldebaran. The little ...

So far, the company has sold roughly 7,000 Peppers to consumers in Japan. Each robot costs roughly $2,000 and comes with a monthly subscription that covers maintenance and software updates.

The robotics company describes 4-foot-tall Pepper as a "humanoid robot with large expressive eyes and lifelike movements and gestures." Apparently Pepper is a tool retailers should expect to use ...

SoftBanks’ friendly humanoid robot, Pepper, has been showing up in an increasing number of locations since its launch in June, 2015. The amiable bot has been spotted toiling away in phone stores ...

HSBC Bank and SoftBank Robotics America announced Tuesday that Pepper, the engaging, social humanoid robot, will now be working at the branch at 523 Union St. in downtown Seattle.

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