Two years ago, Japan's SoftBank introduced Pepper, the world's first “personal companion robot” that is capable of reading and responding to human emotions. Since then, Pepper has been introduced in ...

It can’t cook or clean or do laundry, but SoftBank’s Pepper could become the first breakout humanoid consumer robot and the vanguard of an era of mechanized, cloud-connected assistants. Pepper goes on ...

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.

SoftBank's Pepper robot has ceased production and is unlikely to return, insiders say, a premature retirement for the anthropomorphized robo-humanoid. Revealed back in 2014, Pepper was billed as ...

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 ...

Reports of Pepper’s demise are greatly exaggerated, but the robot’s long-term future is certainly hanging in the balance. Marketed as “the world’s first humanoid robot able to recognize faces and ...