Creating a Home Companion Robot — A Look at SoftBank’s Pepper

Masayoshi Son, founder, chairman, and CEO of SoftBank, unveiled a robot called Pepper at a press conference near Tokyo, Japan in June 2014. SoftBank began selling the home companion robot for about US$2,000 the following year in Japan and other markets followed in the subsequent years. The robots are being manufactured by Taiwan’s giant electronics manufacturer, [...]