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 ...

Softbank’s artificially intelligent robot, Pepper, has seen the first high-profile discontinuation of its use, with the diminutive Pepper having to hand in its badge at a grocery store in ...

Robot fired from grocery store for utter incompetence Written by Greg Nichols, Contributing Writer Jan. 22, 2018 at 2:38 a.m. PT It was a noble experiment gone awry.

Pepper the robot keeps getting fired! $1,790 humanoid bot has lost jobs at a funeral business, nursing home and bank because people 'expect the intelligence of a human' ...

Pepper was made by SoftBank and should be seen in stores towards the end of 2016. The emotional robot is supposed to be able to take and process customer orders.

OAKLAND — Airport travelers needing some assistance at Oakland International Airport now have a robot to help them. Global restaurateur HMSHost, which operates a slew of airport eateries, has ...

Kicking off an event that showcases Softbank's Pepper robot working in a business environment, the Japanese phone carrier says it's going to test it out for itself, announcing a Pepper phone shop ...

Pepper robot has been hired to work at a pop-up mobile phone store in Tokyo. The store will be entirely staffed by the humanoids that answer questions and suggest phones and contracts.

In the US, Pepper will go on sale at SoftBank’s Sprint stores, though its dollar price and exact launch date are yet to be announced. Consumers in Japan can pick up a Pepper from February ...

The fast-food chain has teamed up with MasterCard to develop a new app for Pepper, the humanoid robot made by Japanese technology firm SoftBank - which has already been used by Nestlé to sell ...

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.