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 ...

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 ...

Reports of Pepper’s demise are greatly exaggerated, but the robot’s long-term future is certainly hanging in the balance. Marketed as “the world’s first humanoid robot able to recognize faces and ...