A cooing, gesturing humanoid on wheels that can decipher emotions has been unveiled in Japan by billionaire Masayoshi Son who says robots should be tender and make people smile.

HSBC is billing Pepper as the first humanoid robot in Canadian banking. The company has already introduced robots — all of them called Pepper — at seven locations in the United States.

TOKYO: SoftBank Group Corp said yesterday that it would open a pop-up store in Tokyo for one week this spring where its popular Pepper humanoid robots will sell smartphones.

(Bloomberg) -- SoftBank Group Corp. has suspended production of its Pepper robot, shelving for now a project Masayoshi Son once personally championed as a symbol of his conglomerate’s ambitions ...

At a recent innovation festival, researchers from the University of Canberra introduced attendees to “Pepper,” a humanoid robot equipped with ChatGPT, to study how the public reacts to such ...

San Francisco — While merrily chirping, dancing and posing for selfies, a robot named Pepper looks like another expensive toy at a San Francisco mall. But don't dismiss it as mere child's play.

Pepper, an emotional Robot, greets conference attendees during the Wall Street Journal Digital Live conference at the Montage hotel in Laguna Beach, California October 20, 2015. Mike Blake / Reuters ...