Ever wondered why your virtual home assistant doesn't understand your questions? Or why your navigation app took you on the side street instead of the highway? Researchers have now designed a robot ...

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 ...

Talking to yourself has a bad reputation, but it doesn’t always mean you’re going mad. Studies show that thinking out loud can help you manage your emotions and complete tricky tasks — and it isn’t ...

Robots made to serve as personal assistants are improving all the time, but the reasoning behind their decision-making is still something of a mystery to the everyday user. In an effort to improve ...

SoftBank's Pepper robot has ceased production and is unlikely to return, insiders say, a premature retirement for the anthropomorphized robo-humanoid. Revealed back in 2014, Pepper was billed as ...

Pepper the robot is taking early retirement. The humanoid’s maker, Japan’s SoftBank Group, has reportedly stopped producing Pepper due to weak demand. Pepper had been touted as the harbinger of a ...

FILE - In this May 25, 2016, file photo, Pepper, the robot of Softbank Robotics Europe, performs during the Innorobo European summit, an event dedicated to the service robotics industry in ...

While Russia and the U.N. are worrying about autonomous destructive military robots, Japan is making a happy, cooing robot. Japanese billionaire/robot enthusiast Masayoshi Son said his robot is tender ...

AINA HAINA, Oahu (KHON2) — Pepper the robot is the newest addition to the library’s team, who will help guests with directions, make friendly conversation and comes with many entertainment features ...

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