Tag: pepper
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SoftBank to halt production of Pepper and reduce its robotics business, says Reuters
SoftBank, the Japanese telecommunications giant which has in the past few years become a huge force in the robotics market, is set to halt production of Pepper, the humanoid robot, according to a report by Reuters. The news agency cites sources and documents to say that “production of the humanoid Pepper… was stopped last year”,…
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SoftBank Robotics launches educational IDE for Pepper robot
SoftBank Robotics Americas has launched an integrated development environment for its humanoid Pepper robot. SoftBank calls the IDE “Tethys”, and says it has been created to teach students how to code. The standalone visual programming software can connect to their humanoid robot, Pepper, to program full functionality of the robot in real time. SBRA’s first…
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CloudMinds opens cloud robotics support centre in Chile
CloudMinds Technology, a provider of cloud artificial intelligence architecture for robots, has opened a new support centre in Santiago, Chile. The company says the office will expand support for customers across Mexico and South America. The new operation will report to the company’s global co-headquarters in Santa Clara, California. said Robert Zhang, company co-founder and…
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Haier partners with SoftBank Robotics to develop service robots
Haier and Soft Bank Robotics Group Corp. (SBRG) have launched a strategic partnership for the service robot market in China’s smart store and smart home fields, starting with SBRG’s humanoid robot ‘Pepper’. The two companies will jointly develop a special version of Pepper, which is based on U+OS, an open system developed by Haier. ‘Pepper’,…
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Humanoid robot market to grow to $4 billion in five years
The market for humanoid robots is forecast to grow to $4 billion in about five years, according to a new report by ReportsnReports. The researcher values the current market at approximately $320 million in 2017. So that would mean annual growth of more than 50 per cent. Humanoids include such robots as Pepper and Nao,…
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Paris city hall gives jobs to Pepper and Nao robots
Pepper and Nao now busy working at the city hall of the fifteenth district of Paris Paris has become the first city in France, and one of the few cities in the world, to have employed humanoid robots in its city hall. The city hall of the fifteenth district of Paris has just received two…
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Telecommunications company Sprint to employ Pepper robot for customer relations
US telecommunications company Sprint is employing Pepper, the humanoid robot from SoftBank Robotics, for customer relations. SoftBank Robotics America and Sprint to will initially place Pepper in locations where it will interact with Sprint business clients and retail customers. Pepper is said to be the first humanoid marketing platform that could help businesses and consumers…
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Pepper lands a job on luxury cruise liner
Costa Cruises is bringing five of the latest generation of Pepper robots on board the flagship of the fleet, to entertain guests during their vacations Costa Diadema, flagship of the Costa Cruises fleet, has introduced Pepper, the first robot in the world able to recognize main human emotions and proactively interact with the surrounding environment. Five…
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SoftBank to buy ARM
Japanese communications giant SoftBank is to acquire ARM Holdings for £24.3 billion, according to a report on the Financial Times website. SoftBank has been on something of a spending spree in recent years and is looking to raise its profile in markets outside of Asia, where it is already well-known. The company is particularly interested…
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Robots being employed as receptionists and office managers
Japanese people may have become somewhat accustomed to the sight of a robot greeting them when they enter a store or some such place since robots have been employed as receptionists in Japan for some time now. However, Europe is catching up, with new reports of two separate instances of robots being employed as receptionists. In one…