TOKYO -- The Japanese robot "Pepper" has been programmed to perform a new role: funeral services for Buddhists. SoftBank's humanoid robot "Pepper," featured last month on "CBSN: On Assignment ...

Pepper recently started work in a grocery store as part of a trial to see how a robot might benefit customers. While popular with some shoppers, Pepper's apparent limitations showed it still has ...

Pepper the robot keeps getting fired! $1,790 humanoid bot has lost jobs at a funeral business, nursing home and bank because people 'expect the intelligence of a human' ...

You gotta hand it to Pepper. Even in the face of worldwide economic woes, Softbank’s plucky little robot has never had an issue holding down a job. The ...

Business Humanoid Robot Keeps Getting Fired From His Jobs Pepper, SoftBank’s robot, malfunctioned during scripture readings, took breaks in exercise class and couldn’t recognize the faces of ...

Can a robot spice up the retail banking experience? HSBC’s ‘Pepper’ is now on the job at Seattle branch by Kurt Schlosser on March 12, 2019 at 12:11 pm ...

Softbank’s Pepper robot already landed a couple of jobs in Japan, and earlier in July the robot celebrated its first released outside its homeland and on the shores of Taiwan.