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”.

The CEO of U.S. semiconductor giant Nvidia Corp. expressed high hopes for Japan’s role in the artificial intelligence robotics revolution during talks with Softbank Group Corp.’s CEO on Nov. 13.

SoftBank which is leading the deal will initially be investing $7.5 billion in the company along with $2.5 billion from an investor syndicate. OpenAI has finalised a $40 billion funding round from ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK :The dollar strengthened against the Japanese yen and the euro on Monday, but was set for its largest quarterly decline since July 2024, as uncertainty around U.S. tariffs kept traders ...

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Francie Pepper learned as a child how easily someone else could define her life. Growing up in Mount Auburn, across the street from her father’s workplace at Christ Hospital, everyone knew her ...

TOKYO -- SoftBank Group is planning to create industrial parks across the U.S. featuring artificial intelligence-equipped factories, Nikkei has learned. The Japanese tech investor will potentially ...

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 ...