In video of scientists' experiments, Pepper reveals its thought processes out loud when asked to pass a napkin by a human. This process help the robot make better decisions, the experts say.

Pepper the robot talks to itself to improve its interactions with people. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2021 / 04 / 210421124654.htm. Cell Press.

Pepper, the first humanoid robot with virtual emotions, went on sale in Japan this summer and is now coming to North America. In its fifth year taking over Toronto’s Metro Toronto Convention Centre, ...

HSBC is billing Pepper as the first humanoid robot in Canadian banking. The company has already introduced robots — all of them called Pepper — at seven locations in the United States.

Move over Siri, there’s a new robot in town— and he’s more than just a voice. Japan’s Softbank Corp (OTC: SFTBF ) has worked together with International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM ...

Aldebaran designed Pepper — whom the company refers to as a boy, though her name and voice suggests she’s clearly a girl — to be the first robot to recognize human emotions.

Pepper can walk you through the check-in process either with a conversation or through a touchscreen on its chest, but it has to call a human if you want help with your bags. (The robot has arms ...

The robot, named Pepper, has the ability to read human emotions, hold conversations, move on its own, dance and tell jokes. SoftBank, the mobile phone company that sells the 4-foot robot, ...

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 ...

But once consumers can purchase Pepper for their home, the robot will cost less than half of the $20,000 that business customers will be shelling out. (Naturally, ...