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Google announced at their annual I/O event this week that Pepper the Robot, developed by Japanese communications giant SoftBank and Aldebaran Robotics, will now offer Android SDK to programmers and ...

Last summer, SoftBank offered up 1,000 units of its humanoid robot ‘Pepper’ to the US market — they sold out in under a minute. Now, SoftBank is planning additional availability of the popular robot ...

SoftBank is starting to ramp things up ahead of the US launch of its friendly and versatile humanoid robot, Pepper. After holding down a factotum of service industry jobs in and around Japan and ...

Robots are a challenging combination of software, real-time services, perception, and mechanical motion control. Frameworks like the Robot Operating System (ROS) help coordinate these pieces. The ...

When Irina Blok came up with the idea to create a simple green robot to symbolize what was one of Google's newest projects at the time, she had no idea it would become so iconic. Today, the little ...