Early 2000s band Ima Robot has unearthed a lost album from that time period, Search and Destroy, which will finally see 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 ...

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.

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, ...

Japanese telecom giant SoftBank halted production of Pepper the robot in August of 2020, according to a new report from Reuters. And it seems unlikely that new ones will ever roll off the ...

FILE - In this May 25, 2016, file photo, Pepper, the robot of Softbank Robotics Europe, performs during the Innorobo European summit, an event dedicated to the service robotics industry in ...

TOKYO, July 21 (Reuters) - When SoftBank Group Corp's (9984.T), opens new tab CEO Masayoshi Son unveiled the wide-eyed android Pepper in 2014, he painted a vision, once confined to science fiction, of ...

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