by admin | Sep 28, 2019 | AI
Hospitals are not generally a common place to take a selfie, but at Humber River Hospital in Toronto, many can’t seem to help it. That’s because standing at the entrance inside the building is a four-foot-tall, bright, beady-eyed robot with a soft voice —...
by admin | Sep 18, 2019 | AI
Pepper is a semi-humanoid robot manufactured by SoftBank Robotics (formerly Aldebaran Robotics), which is owned by SoftBank, designed with the ability to read emotions. It was introduced in a conference on 5 June 2014, and was showcased in Softbank mobile phone stores...
by admin | Sep 18, 2019 | Retail
Stroll into an HSBC Bank branch office in New York, Seattle, Beverly Hills, or Toronto (see below), and you’re likely to encounter a 4-foot-tall, all-white, 60-pound, semi-humanoid robot that’s clearly trying to get your attention by using the same verbal and...
by admin | Sep 15, 2019 | AI
There was no problem finding a home for the first batch of humanoid robots known as Pepper. SoftBank Corp. said it sold out its entire stock of 1,000 in the first minute of sales Saturday morning. Billed as the world’s first robot capable of understanding and...
by admin | Aug 6, 2019 | AI
NEW YORK — CloudMinds, a Beijing-based robotics startup backed by SoftBank Group’s Vision Fund, has filed for a $500 million listing on the New York Stock Exchange. CloudMinds touts itself as the first in the world to commercialize a cloud-based...
by admin | Jan 23, 2019 | AI, Retail
The ‘PadBot P3’ robot is an interactive piece of equipment for retail environments that will provide business owners with the ability to greet customers in an automated manner rather than with a human host or hostess. The robot integrates facial...
