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 ...

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 is reportedly restructuring its robotics business — SoftBank Robotics — and has already halted production of its Pepper robot, according to Reuters. Robotics is just one of many businesses ...

Being greeted by a 5-foot-tall robot while a DJ plays loud dance music seems natural entering a nightclub on South Beach, not a tech conference. True to its Miami roots, eMerge Americas is not your ...