A Japanese company has programmed a popular robot, Pepper, to perform Buddhist funeral rites. But will society ever accept artificial intelligence as religious authorities and ritual specialists?

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 ...

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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 £ ...

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 ...

Japanese online store offers clothing and cosmetic accessories for Softbank Corp.'s robot Pepper, the world's first personal robot that can recognize human voices and read facial expressions.

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 ...

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However, today, the future is yesterday and social robots are beginning to live with us from Pepper to Jibo to now Zenbo. According to Knight’s research, “Robots do not require eyes, arms or legs for ...

FUKUOKA--Dancing robot dogs named Spot and Pepper humanoid robots have been cheering on the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks baseball team in the absence of flesh and blood fans and cheerleaders. The ...

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 ...