Near the bank tellers at a downtown Toronto HSBC branch, a robot that's a little more than a metre tall invites customers to ask for help before waiting in line for its human co-workers. A touchscreen ...

Pepper the robot has a new gig at HSBC’s New York City flagship store. The customer engagement robot won’t be a teller, but instead will have job responsibilities such as “streamline branch operations ...

User agreements tend to be dry and dense, but some important terms and conditions can be buried in the line after line of legalese. The agreement for Windows 10, for example, says that the company can ...

SoftBank pulled the plug on its Pepper robot last year, seven years after the Japanese firm unveiled the chatty white android to the public. Pepper became a fan favorite when it was first unveiled ...

Alberta bank ATB Financial and SoftBank Robotics America (SBRA) today announced that humanoid robot Pepper will engage with customers at select ATB branches in Calgary starting in May 2017. To bring ...

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, ...

It was launched to much fanfare seven years ago, but it appears Pepper, the friendly humanoid robot, may soon be on the scrapheap. The $1,790 (£1,290) machine, which is battling to stave off ...

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 ...

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 artificial ...

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 ...