The robotics company Aldebaran has been acquired by a Chinese company. The continuation of the Pepper and Nao robots appears to be secured. The French robotics company Aldebaran Robotics, which went ...

Pepper the robot is taking early retirement. The humanoid’s maker, Japan’s SoftBank Group, has reportedly stopped producing Pepper due to weak demand. Pepper had been touted as the harbinger of a ...

By September 2024, United Robotics Group ( URG ) relaunched Rethink and returned the company from Germany to the U.S. However ...

TOKYO, Oct 22 (Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp is in talks to sell the Paris-based robotics business behind its Pepper android to Germany's United Robotics Group, according to sources and documents ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- While merrily chirping, dancing and posing for selfies, a robot named Pepper looks like another expensive toy at a San Francisco mall. But don't dismiss it as mere child's play.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 25, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- SoftBank Robotics (SBR), the North American arm of SoftBank Robotics Group, today announced its collaboration with Ever AI, the world's most advanced face ...

Japan already has a hotel staffed by robots, so why not a cafe? Opening this week in Tokyo’s bustling Shibuya district, tech giant SoftBank is opening a new eatery staffed by lots of its Pepper robots ...