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A Pepper-warm reception at Decos
Like some angular alien architecture, Decos' futuristic development lab appears freshly landed in a martian lanscape. Underneath the sharp geometry and vectors, inside, the highly innovative company...
18 January 2017, by
Thosha Moodley
Robot companions are coming into our homes — how human should they be?
What would your ideal robot be like? One that can change nappies and tell bedtime stories to your child? Perhaps you’d prefer a butler that can polish silver and mix the perfect cocktail? Or maybe y...
10 August 2016, by
Adeline Chanseau
Hello Pepper: Getting started to program robots on Android
I didn’t get to meet Pepper the humanoid Robot at Google I/O but I watched the video afterwards: A new development frontier: Android + Pepper the interactive robot. Love the robots’ dance! I was s...
03 August 2016, by
Margaret Maynard-Reid
How is Pepper, SoftBank’s emotional robot, doing?
Pepper is a child-height human-shaped robot described as having been designed to be a genuine companion that perceives and acts upon a range of human emotions.
SoftBank, the Japanese telecom gia...
30 May 2016, by
Frank Tobe
Foxconn shopping for robot manufacturer to keep pace with brisk Pepper sales
In an article about the pace of sales for the SoftBank Pepper robot, the China Post reported that Taiwan-based Hon Hai Precision (AKA Foxconn) has sent a team of 30 to survey the US market for futu...
05 January 2016, by
Frank Tobe
2016 will be a pivotal year for social robots
1,000 Pepper robots are selling each month from a big-dollar venture between SoftBank, Alibaba and Foxconn; Jibo just raised another $16 million as it prepares to deliver 7,500+ units in March and A...
14 December 2015, by
Frank Tobe
1,000 workers produce latest batch of 1,000 Pepper robots
The latest batch of 1,000 Japanese-speaking Pepper robots sold out in one minute after they were made available online by Japanese telecom company SoftBank. This brings the total Pepper robots sold ...
12 November 2015, by
Frank Tobe
Softbank will take pre-orders for enterprise version of Pepper starting Oct 1
Developing Story: Softbank today announced that it will be taking preorders for the enterprise version of their Pepper robot, called "Pepper for Biz" starting October 1 this year. This comes one day a...
30 July 2015, by
Hallie Siegel
Japanese telcos vie for share in consumer robot-as-a-service business
View image | gettyimages.com
Yesterday a second Japanese telecommunication firm entered the consumer robot-as-a-service market when the state-owned Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NT...
29 July 2015, by
Hallie Siegel
Pepper robots to roll out at 1,000 per month
SoftBank announced that their little Pepper robot will be available for sale beginning August 1st at the rate of 1,000 per month after selling out their first 1,000 Peppers in one online minute in Jun...
10 July 2015, by
Frank Tobe
Foxconn and Alibaba invest in SoftBank Robotics as Pepper goes on sale in Japan
In a strategic move sure to have long-term ramifications, Foxconn and Alibaba each invested $118 million for a combined 40% share of the new SoftBank Robotic Holdings Group, an entity which holds Alde...
19 June 2015, by
Frank Tobe
Forget Google and unicorns, Asian dragons are going to dominate robotics
Yesterday SoftBank, FoxConn and Alibaba cemented a strong robotics initiative. Having acquired a majority stake in Aldebaran in 2012 (just after the Amazon acquisition of Kiva), SoftBank’s interest...
19 June 2015, by
Andra Keay
Why are JIBO, Pepper, Siri, Google Now and Cortana so important?
There's a race going on to see which AI solution providing personal assistance is welcomed by businesses, end users and consumers, and whether this will be physical or virtual....
16 March 2015, by
Frank Tobe
UPDATE Pepper delayed until summer; Aldebaran execs Maisonnier and Baillie leave
UPDATED 2/23/15 Softbank announced a delay in sales of their Pepper robot from February until sometime during the summer. Aldebaran announced that CEO and Founder Bruno Maisonnier and Jean-Christop...
23 February 2015, by
Frank Tobe
Bruno Maisonnier moves on from Aldebaran
Farewell and thank you to Bruno Maisonnier, the founder and CEO of Aldebaran Robotics, which is now 95% owned by Softbank. Softbank had previously acquired a majority stake in the ground breaking Fr...
23 February 2015, by
Andra Keay
SoftBank/Aldebaran Pepper robots go on sale in February
IEEE/Spectrum Senior Editor Erico Guizzo describes in a recent post (and two videos) how Aldebaran's two-year Pepper project is coming to fruition....
15 January 2015, by
Frank Tobe
Nestlé 1st big buyer of Softbank’s Pepper robot
Earlier this year Softbank announced the launch of Pepper, a robot created specifically for SoftBank and the Japanese market. Last week Nestlé announced that it will use Pepper to sell its Nescafé ...
03 November 2014, by
Frank Tobe
On Pepper, Aldebaran and emotional robotics: Interview with Bruno Maisonnier
Bruno Maisonnier at TedExConcorde. Photo credit: Rodrigo SEPÚLVEDA SCHULZ.
Last week I dropped by Aldebaran’s studio to get a glimpse of Pepper in action, and was pretty excited about this robot. ...
24 June 2014, by
Mark Stephen Meadows
SoftBank + Aldebaran = Pepper
The latest creation from Aldebaran Robotics - Pepper - is designed to live with humans. It doesn’t clean or cook but it talks, is mobile, can read emotions, and reacts aut...
06 June 2014, by
Frank Tobe
SoftBank’s humanoid robot Pepper knows how you’re feeling | ComputerWorld
Pepper is a cute, wisecracking personal robot designed to bring joy to everyone, and Japanese mobile carrier SoftBank wants people to start buying it next year for the price of a high-end PC.
Its...
05 June 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
