Robots don’t necessarily bring out the warm-and-fuzzy in humans. Pepper hopes to change that. “We designed Pepper to create empathy,” says Steve Carlin, SoftBank Robotics America vice ...

Pepper recently started work in a grocery store as part of a trial to see how a robot might benefit customers. While popular with some shoppers, Pepper's apparent limitations showed it still has ...

That's where Pepper comes in to play -- the funeral robot could act as priest when a human is not available. Nissei's executive adviser, Michio Inamura, says using a robot priest would cost about ...

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 ...

"Pepper" is the first humanoid robot designed to live with humans. The robot was created by French outfit Aldebaran in collaboration with Telecoms giant Softbank. BBC Click's Marc Cieslak went to ...

In video of scientists' experiments, Pepper reveals its thought processes out loud when asked to pass a napkin by a human. This process help the robot make better decisions, the experts say.

Pepper the robot has apparently been enjoying its time in the Bay this winter. After scoring a gig greeting shoppers at a pair of shopping malls just ahead of the holidays, ...

Pepper is able to speak English, French, Japanese and Spanish, with more languages due to follow. Around 200 robot apps will be available for download from the dedicated app store, such as the ...

Pepper is heading to the robot graveyard, but memories of the humanoid will live on. These are our favorite moments from the droid's seven-year life.

Pepper only exists to be your robot buddy, specifically created to keep people company, especially in Japan, whose population is the fastest-aging in the world.

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.

Pepper recently started work in a grocery store as part of a trial to see how a robot might benefit customers. But it seems like there's still some work to be done.