Pepper the robot is programmed with hundreds of jokes, and if you don't believe it, just ask her. The residents of the Estates nursing home in Roseville sure did as the robot made its national debut ...

Humanoid robots powered by AI are beginning to make their way into everyday public spaces—and people are starting to form first impressions. At a recent innovation festival, researchers from the ...

Farming worker shortages are getting worse. In a survey by the California Farm Bureau Federation last year, 55 percent of the 762 farmers surveyed said they had experienced employee shortages. That's ...

According to Japanese robotics firm Agrist, there's a shortage of farm workers in that country, resulting in lower yields than would otherwise be possible. The company is offering a partial solution ...

It can’t cook or clean or do laundry, but SoftBank’s Pepper could become the first breakout humanoid consumer robot and the vanguard of an era of mechanized, cloud-connected assistants. Pepper goes on ...

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 ...

SoftBank Corp CEO Masayoshi Son speaks with the company's robot, Pepper, during a press conference in Maihama, near Tokyo, Thursday, June 18. (AP) URAYASU, Japan -- Technology company Softbank's ...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - SoftBank Corp's <9984.T> human-like robot Pepper will be rolled out in Taiwan later this year with about 100 rented units making their appearance in some banks and Carrefour SA ...

Three humanoid robots and more than 100 Cornell alumni joined Rodolphe Gelin, the chief scientific officer of SoftBank Robotics, for a keynote speech on the future of robotics as part of a two-day ...