A series of QUT research studies have shed light on the importance of involving individuals with intellectual disabilities in ...

The manufacturer of the humanoid robots Nao and Pepper, Aldebaran Robotics, has slipped into insolvency. Whether and how it ...

Texas Instruments says its very, very, very small microcontroller is suitable for devices such as electric toothbrushes, ...

Earlier this week it was widely reported that Softbank’s friendly-faced almost-humanoid Pepper robot was not long for this world, as the Japanese company’s subsidiary in France that had been ...

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Meet Pepper, a humanoid robot that reads the emotions of people it meets and reacts to their moods using its voice, arm and hand gestures, and changes in eye color to express itself. Pepper also ...

Pepper is a robot receptionist working at a hospital in Belgium. It can speak 19 languages and was brought in to improve social and health care. It was designed by company Zora Bots and costs £ ...

Three books examine our complex and often fraught relationship with robots, AI, and automation.

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Japanese technology company Softbank denies it’s pulling the plug on its friendly, talking, bubble-headed Pepper robot. “There is absolutely no change to our Pepper business,” Softbank ...

Some robots are already turning up in unexpected places, including a bell pepper farm in Shintomi, Miyazaki Prefecture, on the main southern island of Kyushu. The farm is run by Agrist ...