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 ...

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 ...

SoftBank has halted production of its humanoid robot, Pepper, although that decision was not made as part of the company's restructuring plans, according to a company spokesperson. Earlier this month, ...

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 ...

Japanese telecom giant SoftBank halted production of Pepper the robot in August of 2020, according to a new report from Reuters. And it seems unlikely that new ones will ever roll off the ...

TOKYO, July 21 (Reuters) - When SoftBank Group Corp's (9984.T), opens new tab CEO Masayoshi Son unveiled the wide-eyed android Pepper in 2014, he painted a vision, once confined to science fiction, of ...