It should come as no surprise that Pepper – the four-foot tall humanoid robot who has become C Spire’s unofficial mascot – is a showstopper wherever she goes.

The 4-foot-tall robot is a product of Softbank Robotics America, a company that has donated robots to district high schools with computer science programs in Boston, San Francisco, and British ...

(Just as a quick aside, I don’t buy that Pepper actually reads emotions — no robot or computer vision system can do that. Hell, neither can I most of the time.) ...

Although hearing the inner voice of robots enriches the human-robot interaction, some people might find it inefficient because the robot spends more time completing tasks when it talks to itself.

That’s the future of retail promised by Pepper. The artificial intelligence-backed robot is already found in stores like Nestle and Nissan across Japan and Europe.

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.

Expensive and dumb — Pepper has always been something of a novelty — exemplified best by the fact that the robot’s most public appearances have been at conferences, and standing in for ...

The university will be using Pepper as a social robotics research platform, which it said complements the Queensland government's strategy to explore the potential for humanoid robots.