If SoftBank Robotics has its way, Pepper the humanoid robot will not only soon offer cooking advice when you shop for olive oil at your local grocery store, it will also read your facial expressions ...

WASHINGTON - On a gloomy October morning, Smithsonian staff members at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden woke up one of their employees from an office and headed to the third floor. Soon after ...

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 batch ...

Pepper, a multipurpose human-shaped robot, design by Softbank, is the first robot to be adopted in Japanese homes. The diminutive droid’s latest gig is at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. The ...

Based on a recent demo in Tokyo, however, Softbank's Watson-powered robot still has some learning to do. Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better ...

Japanese tech firm SoftBank has announced that its emotion-sensing robot, Pepper, will go on sale in Japan from June 20. The company says that Pepper is the world’s first personal robot that can read ...

Standing just under four feet tall, and weighing 61 pounds, Pepper is designed to read emotions as well as recognize tones of voice and facial expressions in order to interact with humans. But most of ...

Sprint’s (NYSE:S) latest customer relations employee is a robot. Sprint has started to use Pepper, a four-foot tall humanoid robot, to assist customers at the telecommunications company’s retail ...

Imagine walking into a store and actually feeling like someone (or something) wants to help you, instead of pushing you into buying the latest, expensive product. That’s the future of retail promised ...

Pepper the humanoid robot is seen in action at HSBC Bank in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Amanda C. Edwards Photo / @acefotopro) Bank customers who have already embraced technology as a way of handling their ...

Scientists have modified Pepper the robot to think out loud, which they say can increase transparency and trust between human and machine. The Italian team built an 'inner speech model' that allowed ...