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.

Japanese robot Pepper is getting an intelligence upgrade via IBM’s Watson, but that doesn’t make interacting with the real world any less challenging. The humanoid will channel Watson’s artificial ...

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 was billed as ...

We’ve seen Pepper, the cutesy robotic butler, provide customer service, offer info at train stations, sell smartphones and take your Pizza Hut order. Now, Pepper has a new public health mission. The ...

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 ...

Talking to yourself has a bad reputation, but it doesn’t always mean you’re going mad. Studies show that thinking out loud can help you manage your emotions and complete tricky tasks — and it isn’t ...

SoftBank has halted production of its humanoid robot, Pepper, although that decision was not made as part of the company's restructuring plans, according to a company spokesperson. Earlier this month, ...

It can’t cook or clean or do laundry, but SoftBank’s Pepper could become the first breakout humanoid consumer robot and the vanguard of an era of mechanized, cloud-connected assistants. Pepper goes on ...