Pepper is the company's humanoid robot, designed to work at airports and malls. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Japan is using the famous humanoid Pepper robot to fight its ...

Pepper is able to speak English, French, Japanese and Spanish, with more languages due to follow. Around 200 robot apps will be available for download from the dedicated app store, such as the ...

TOKYO — Japanese telecommunications giant Softbank Corp. on Thursday unveiled a new humanoid robot named Pepper, which the company claimed can identify human emotions and respond to them.

TOKYO -- The Japanese robot "Pepper" has been programmed to perform a new role: funeral services for Buddhists. SoftBank's humanoid robot "Pepper," featured last month on "CBSN: On Assignment ...

Japan loves robots, a fascination nurtured by decades ... inspiration for a robot that his business introduced this year. “Pepper,” developed by a French firm that SoftBank acquired, is ...

There are industry gatherings for all sectors, and that includes the funeral sector. It's not an area where you'd expect to find many tech products, but at the Tokyo International Funeral ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Pepper the robot is coming to our shores later this year, and its creators want the help of Android developers to help make it smarter. Japan-based SoftBank Robotics ...

If early indications are anything to go by, Pepper the "emotional" robot is going to be a seriously big hit with consumers in Japan. Maker SoftBank said it took just one minute to sell its first ...

Standing at a little over a foot tall and capable of recognising human emotions, personal robot Pepper is already proving a success in Japan. Within a minute of going on sale at the weekend ...

TOKYO (AP) — 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 ...

Pepper too has been discontinued. But such robots continue to have a long afterlife, particularly in online media—projecting and maintaining a techno-­orientalist image of a futuristic Japan.