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.

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Three humanoid robots and more than 100 Cornell alumni joined Rodolphe Gelin, the chief scientific officer of SoftBank Robotics, for a keynote speech on the future of robotics as part of a two-day ...

Japan is facing a crisis: fewer priests, aging communities, and temples shutting down by the thousands. Into this vacuum steps Pepper, a humanoid robot programmed to chant sutras, read facial ...

SALEM, Ore. — In an office park opposite an Amazon warehouse, the robots are at work. A trio of six-foot-tall machines with ostrichlike legs and two jointed arms work in shifts, walking off a charging ...

SAN FRANCISCO — While merrily chirping, dancing and posing for selfies, a robot named Pepperstock indexes close slightly lower; oil price slips looks like another expensive toy at a San Francisco mall ...