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a humanoid robot that reads the emotions of people it meets and reacts to their moods using its voice, arm and hand gestures, and changes in eye color to express itself. Pepper also carries about a ...

Earlier this week it was widely reported that Softbank’s friendly-faced almost-humanoid Pepper robot was not long for this world, as the Japanese company’s subsidiary in France that had been ...

Pepper is a robot receptionist working at a hospital in Belgium. It can speak 19 languages and was brought in to improve social and health care. It was designed by company Zora Bots and costs £ ...

Pepper robots, which have expressive hands but move around on wheels, have been cheering and dancing in the stands for the home games of the Softbank Hawks Japanese professional baseball team in ...

Emirates NBD, one of the leading banking groups in the region, is introducing 'Pepper'*, an artificial intelligence robot that will add a fun element to customer engagement. Pepper will make his ...