SAN FRANCISCO – The four-foot tall robot whirling around the new offices of SoftBank Robotics America could well be your big-box store greeter of the near future. “Hi, I’m Pepper,” says ...

Pepper, a robot that runs on emotion engines, algorithms and cloud artificial intelligence, will be sold through Softbank Mobile stores in Japan for about $1,900 in 2015.

This $1,900 robot is powered by love, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son says.

SoftBank's human-like robot named "pepper" performs distributing a pack of tissue paper as a part-time worker during a news conference in Chiba, Japan, June 18, 2015. (REUTERS/Yuya Shino) ...

Pepper has around 12 hours of battery life, according to Son. The robot is the result of a collaboration between SoftBank and French company Aldebaran Robotics, which has produced models like the ...

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 ...

SoftBank Robotics America plans to launch Pepper in North America later this year, but in the meantime developers can get to know the humanoid robot by visiting her at b8ta in Palo Alto.

File photo - SoftBank Corp's human-like robot named 'pepper' is displayed at its branch in Tokyo June 6, 2014. (REUTERS/Yuya Shino) There are industry gatherings for all sectors, and that includes ...

Softbank's Pepper robot has been repurposed in some places to help COVID-19 patients. Pepper is the company's humanoid robot, designed to work at airports and malls.

SoftBank is restructuring its robotics business and has halted production of its Pepper robot, Reuters reports. The company previously sold off a controlling stake in robotics company Boston Dynamics.

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… ...