Does anyone remember Pepper the Robot? Launched with great fanfare in Japan in 2014 by SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son, this humanoid robot was quietly discontinued seven years later due to “weak demand”.

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 ...

introducing students to hands-on robotics and AI learning experiences. SoftBank Group offered over 100 Pepper robots to North American schools, including the San Francisco Unified School District ...

Within North America, the US dominates the market owing to the presence of major players like Agility Robotics (US), Boston Dynamics (US), Figure (US), and Tesla (US) and continuous R&D efforts to ...

Other robots such as Qihan Technology's Sanbot and SoftBank Robotics' Pepper, are being "humanized" by teaching them to read and react to people's emotional states. Pepper is "capable of interpreting ...

As the growth of the U.S. workforce is expected to slow down, SoftBank is confident that the efficient use of AI robots would help the U.S. manufacturing industry to develop further, the report noted.

SoftBank eyes $1 trillion investment in U.S. AI industrial parks using autonomous robots. Masayoshi Son plans U.S. visit as OpenAI, Oracle expand $100B AI venture. China’s new tariffs just ...

CMR Surgical just got itself more than $200 million in new capital to pump the pedal down on a global rollout of its surgical robotics system and, even more daring, to make a serious dent in the U ...