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A well-trained team of robots from Germany has won the robot equivalent of the World Cup.
The event, officially called the Stanford Platform competition, pits teams of five Nao robots – originally developed by Aldebaran – against each other in a knockout tournament.
And as with many human World Cups, the robot tournament was won by a team from Germany, ironically called B-Human.
Full report at Telegraph.co.uk
Japanese communications giant SoftBank is looking to build on its increasing brand awareness outside Asia with a change of name for Europe.
SoftBank is the company behind the Pepper robot and the Aldebaran Robotics company, which developed Pepper and a number of other robotic systems and technologies including Nao (picture).
Now, SoftBank Group has decided to rename Aldebaran as SoftBank Robotics Europe and has changed the website accordingly.
In a statement, SoftBank said the change of the Aldebaran brand name to SoftBank Robotics was “in view of increased global brand awareness and business scale in the future”. [Read more…] about SoftBank absorbs Aldebaran and adds robotics to its name
Cruise liner company Costa Group has signed an exclusive agreement with the French company Aldebaran for a pilot project with Pepper robots.
Aldebaran, which is a subsidiary of the SoftBank Group through SoftBank Robotics Corp, said the contract was worth more than a million euros.
Pepper is the world’s first robot that reads main human emotions, says the company, adding that it is ideally suited to help and delight guests on board of cruise ships. Aldebaran adds that Pepper will improve guest experience and provide help and entertainment on board the ships of the Costa Group’s cruise brands: AIDA and Costa. [Read more…] about Costa Group to test Pepper humanoid robots on cruise liners
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