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SoftBank Halts Production of $1,800 Pepper Humanoid Robot

Bloomberg2021-06-29

SoftBank Group Corp.has suspended production of its Pepper robot, shelving for now a project Masayoshi Son once personally championed as a symbol of his conglomerate’s ambitions in AI and technology. ...

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Now, it looks like Pepper -- assembled by Taiwanese iPhone-makerHon Hai Precision Industry Co.-- is destined to joinHonda Motor Co.’s soccer-playing ASIMO andSony Group Corp.’s QRIO humanoids as the latest cool-but-impractical robot to come out of Japan.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a49b9c229e18ec7547949433a075e520\" tg-width=\"1000\" tg-height=\"666\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Pepper reminds travelers to social distance at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, in 2020.Photographer: Noriko Hayashi/Bloomberg</span></p>\n<p>SoftBank’s robotics group was created through the 2012 acquisition ofAldebaran Robotics SA. Its French engineers weresaidto have clashed with managers in Tokyo, including over complaints about unwieldy software. Pepper’s main selling point — the emotion engine — became a stumbling block after engineers found the robot pivoted between different states too rapidly and unnaturally. 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Now, it looks like Pepper -- assembled by Taiwanese iPhone-makerHon Hai Precision Industry Co.-- is destined to joinHonda Motor Co.’s soccer-playing ASIMO andSony Group Corp.’s QRIO humanoids as the latest cool-but-impractical robot to come out of Japan.\nPepper reminds travelers to social distance at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, in 2020.Photographer: Noriko Hayashi/Bloomberg\nSoftBank’s robotics group was created through the 2012 acquisition ofAldebaran Robotics SA. Its French engineers weresaidto have clashed with managers in Tokyo, including over complaints about unwieldy software. Pepper’s main selling point — the emotion engine — became a stumbling block after engineers found the robot pivoted between different states too rapidly and unnaturally. Only 27,000 units were ever made, Reuters reported.\nIn 2018, SoftBank introduced a more practical robot called Whiz, which cleans floors for businesses. 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It’s now in discussions with its French robotics unit, which employs about 330 people, on potential job reductions, she said. Reutersreportedearlier, citing unidentified sources, that SoftBank plans to cut roughly 50% of those positions in France by September.</p>\n<p>Pepper, SoftBank’s first foray into robotics, was marketed from 2014 as a home companion and store assistant. Touted as the first machine endowed with emotions, the company marketed Pepper aggressively from the U.S. to Japan, promising the gadget was sophisticated enough for tasks usually handled by clerks, receptionists and translators.</p>\n<p>While the robot was capable of expressing human-like body language, maintaining eye contact and engaging in limited small talk, it never caught on. Now, it looks like Pepper -- assembled by Taiwanese iPhone-makerHon Hai Precision Industry Co.-- is destined to joinHonda Motor Co.’s soccer-playing ASIMO andSony Group Corp.’s QRIO humanoids as the latest cool-but-impractical robot to come out of Japan.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a49b9c229e18ec7547949433a075e520\" tg-width=\"1000\" tg-height=\"666\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Pepper reminds travelers to social distance at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, in 2020.Photographer: Noriko Hayashi/Bloomberg</span></p>\n<p>SoftBank’s robotics group was created through the 2012 acquisition ofAldebaran Robotics SA. Its French engineers weresaidto have clashed with managers in Tokyo, including over complaints about unwieldy software. Pepper’s main selling point — the emotion engine — became a stumbling block after engineers found the robot pivoted between different states too rapidly and unnaturally. 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It’s now in discussions with its French robotics unit, which employs about 330 people, on potential job reductions, she said. Reutersreportedearlier, citing unidentified sources, that SoftBank plans to cut roughly 50% of those positions in France by September.\nPepper, SoftBank’s first foray into robotics, was marketed from 2014 as a home companion and store assistant. Touted as the first machine endowed with emotions, the company marketed Pepper aggressively from the U.S. to Japan, promising the gadget was sophisticated enough for tasks usually handled by clerks, receptionists and translators.\nWhile the robot was capable of expressing human-like body language, maintaining eye contact and engaging in limited small talk, it never caught on. 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It’s now in discussions with its French robotics unit, which employs about 330 people, on potential job reductions, she said. Reutersreportedearlier, citing unidentified sources, that SoftBank plans to cut roughly 50% of those positions in France by September.</p>\n<p>Pepper, SoftBank’s first foray into robotics, was marketed from 2014 as a home companion and store assistant. Touted as the first machine endowed with emotions, the company marketed Pepper aggressively from the U.S. to Japan, promising the gadget was sophisticated enough for tasks usually handled by clerks, receptionists and translators.</p>\n<p>While the robot was capable of expressing human-like body language, maintaining eye contact and engaging in limited small talk, it never caught on. Now, it looks like Pepper -- assembled by Taiwanese iPhone-makerHon Hai Precision Industry Co.-- is destined to joinHonda Motor Co.’s soccer-playing ASIMO andSony Group Corp.’s QRIO humanoids as the latest cool-but-impractical robot to come out of Japan.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a49b9c229e18ec7547949433a075e520\" tg-width=\"1000\" tg-height=\"666\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Pepper reminds travelers to social distance at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, in 2020.Photographer: Noriko Hayashi/Bloomberg</span></p>\n<p>SoftBank’s robotics group was created through the 2012 acquisition ofAldebaran Robotics SA. Its French engineers weresaidto have clashed with managers in Tokyo, including over complaints about unwieldy software. Pepper’s main selling point — the emotion engine — became a stumbling block after engineers found the robot pivoted between different states too rapidly and unnaturally. 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It’s now in discussions with its French robotics unit, which employs about 330 people, on potential job reductions, she said. Reutersreportedearlier, citing unidentified sources, that SoftBank plans to cut roughly 50% of those positions in France by September.\nPepper, SoftBank’s first foray into robotics, was marketed from 2014 as a home companion and store assistant. Touted as the first machine endowed with emotions, the company marketed Pepper aggressively from the U.S. to Japan, promising the gadget was sophisticated enough for tasks usually handled by clerks, receptionists and translators.\nWhile the robot was capable of expressing human-like body language, maintaining eye contact and engaging in limited small talk, it never caught on. Now, it looks like Pepper -- assembled by Taiwanese iPhone-makerHon Hai Precision Industry Co.-- is destined to joinHonda Motor Co.’s soccer-playing ASIMO andSony Group Corp.’s QRIO humanoids as the latest cool-but-impractical robot to come out of Japan.\nPepper reminds travelers to social distance at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, in 2020.Photographer: Noriko Hayashi/Bloomberg\nSoftBank’s robotics group was created through the 2012 acquisition ofAldebaran Robotics SA. Its French engineers weresaidto have clashed with managers in Tokyo, including over complaints about unwieldy software. Pepper’s main selling point — the emotion engine — became a stumbling block after engineers found the robot pivoted between different states too rapidly and unnaturally. Only 27,000 units were ever made, Reuters reported.\nIn 2018, SoftBank introduced a more practical robot called Whiz, which cleans floors for businesses. 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It’s now in discussions with its French robotics unit, which employs about 330 people, on potential job reductions, she said. Reutersreportedearlier, citing unidentified sources, that SoftBank plans to cut roughly 50% of those positions in France by September.</p>\n<p>Pepper, SoftBank’s first foray into robotics, was marketed from 2014 as a home companion and store assistant. Touted as the first machine endowed with emotions, the company marketed Pepper aggressively from the U.S. to Japan, promising the gadget was sophisticated enough for tasks usually handled by clerks, receptionists and translators.</p>\n<p>While the robot was capable of expressing human-like body language, maintaining eye contact and engaging in limited small talk, it never caught on. Now, it looks like Pepper -- assembled by Taiwanese iPhone-makerHon Hai Precision Industry Co.-- is destined to joinHonda Motor Co.’s soccer-playing ASIMO andSony Group Corp.’s QRIO humanoids as the latest cool-but-impractical robot to come out of Japan.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a49b9c229e18ec7547949433a075e520\" tg-width=\"1000\" tg-height=\"666\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Pepper reminds travelers to social distance at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, in 2020.Photographer: Noriko Hayashi/Bloomberg</span></p>\n<p>SoftBank’s robotics group was created through the 2012 acquisition ofAldebaran Robotics SA. Its French engineers weresaidto have clashed with managers in Tokyo, including over complaints about unwieldy software. Pepper’s main selling point — the emotion engine — became a stumbling block after engineers found the robot pivoted between different states too rapidly and unnaturally. 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It’s now in discussions with its French robotics unit, which employs about 330 people, on potential job reductions, she said. Reutersreportedearlier, citing unidentified sources, that SoftBank plans to cut roughly 50% of those positions in France by September.</p>\n<p>Pepper, SoftBank’s first foray into robotics, was marketed from 2014 as a home companion and store assistant. Touted as the first machine endowed with emotions, the company marketed Pepper aggressively from the U.S. to Japan, promising the gadget was sophisticated enough for tasks usually handled by clerks, receptionists and translators.</p>\n<p>While the robot was capable of expressing human-like body language, maintaining eye contact and engaging in limited small talk, it never caught on. Now, it looks like Pepper -- assembled by Taiwanese iPhone-makerHon Hai Precision Industry Co.-- is destined to joinHonda Motor Co.’s soccer-playing ASIMO andSony Group Corp.’s QRIO humanoids as the latest cool-but-impractical robot to come out of Japan.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a49b9c229e18ec7547949433a075e520\" tg-width=\"1000\" tg-height=\"666\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Pepper reminds travelers to social distance at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, in 2020.Photographer: Noriko Hayashi/Bloomberg</span></p>\n<p>SoftBank’s robotics group was created through the 2012 acquisition ofAldebaran Robotics SA. Its French engineers weresaidto have clashed with managers in Tokyo, including over complaints about unwieldy software. Pepper’s main selling point — the emotion engine — became a stumbling block after engineers found the robot pivoted between different states too rapidly and unnaturally. 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It’s now in discussions with its French robotics unit, which employs about 330 people, on potential job reductions, she said. Reutersreportedearlier, citing unidentified sources, that SoftBank plans to cut roughly 50% of those positions in France by September.</p>\n<p>Pepper, SoftBank’s first foray into robotics, was marketed from 2014 as a home companion and store assistant. Touted as the first machine endowed with emotions, the company marketed Pepper aggressively from the U.S. to Japan, promising the gadget was sophisticated enough for tasks usually handled by clerks, receptionists and translators.</p>\n<p>While the robot was capable of expressing human-like body language, maintaining eye contact and engaging in limited small talk, it never caught on. Now, it looks like Pepper -- assembled by Taiwanese iPhone-makerHon Hai Precision Industry Co.-- is destined to joinHonda Motor Co.’s soccer-playing ASIMO andSony Group Corp.’s QRIO humanoids as the latest cool-but-impractical robot to come out of Japan.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a49b9c229e18ec7547949433a075e520\" tg-width=\"1000\" tg-height=\"666\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Pepper reminds travelers to social distance at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, in 2020.Photographer: Noriko Hayashi/Bloomberg</span></p>\n<p>SoftBank’s robotics group was created through the 2012 acquisition ofAldebaran Robotics SA. Its French engineers weresaidto have clashed with managers in Tokyo, including over complaints about unwieldy software. Pepper’s main selling point — the emotion engine — became a stumbling block after engineers found the robot pivoted between different states too rapidly and unnaturally. 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It’s now in discussions with its French robotics unit, which employs about 330 people, on potential job reductions, she said. Reutersreportedearlier, citing unidentified sources, that SoftBank plans to cut roughly 50% of those positions in France by September.\nPepper, SoftBank’s first foray into robotics, was marketed from 2014 as a home companion and store assistant. Touted as the first machine endowed with emotions, the company marketed Pepper aggressively from the U.S. to Japan, promising the gadget was sophisticated enough for tasks usually handled by clerks, receptionists and translators.\nWhile the robot was capable of expressing human-like body language, maintaining eye contact and engaging in limited small talk, it never caught on. 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It’s now in discussions with its French robotics unit, which employs about 330 people, on potential job reductions, she said. Reutersreportedearlier, citing unidentified sources, that SoftBank plans to cut roughly 50% of those positions in France by September.\nPepper, SoftBank’s first foray into robotics, was marketed from 2014 as a home companion and store assistant. Touted as the first machine endowed with emotions, the company marketed Pepper aggressively from the U.S. to Japan, promising the gadget was sophisticated enough for tasks usually handled by clerks, receptionists and translators.\nWhile the robot was capable of expressing human-like body language, maintaining eye contact and engaging in limited small talk, it never caught on. 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It’s now in discussions with its French robotics unit, which employs about 330 people, on potential job reductions, she said. Reutersreportedearlier, citing unidentified sources, that SoftBank plans to cut roughly 50% of those positions in France by September.</p>\n<p>Pepper, SoftBank’s first foray into robotics, was marketed from 2014 as a home companion and store assistant. Touted as the first machine endowed with emotions, the company marketed Pepper aggressively from the U.S. to Japan, promising the gadget was sophisticated enough for tasks usually handled by clerks, receptionists and translators.</p>\n<p>While the robot was capable of expressing human-like body language, maintaining eye contact and engaging in limited small talk, it never caught on. Now, it looks like Pepper -- assembled by Taiwanese iPhone-makerHon Hai Precision Industry Co.-- is destined to joinHonda Motor Co.’s soccer-playing ASIMO andSony Group Corp.’s QRIO humanoids as the latest cool-but-impractical robot to come out of Japan.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a49b9c229e18ec7547949433a075e520\" tg-width=\"1000\" tg-height=\"666\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Pepper reminds travelers to social distance at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, in 2020.Photographer: Noriko Hayashi/Bloomberg</span></p>\n<p>SoftBank’s robotics group was created through the 2012 acquisition ofAldebaran Robotics SA. Its French engineers weresaidto have clashed with managers in Tokyo, including over complaints about unwieldy software. Pepper’s main selling point — the emotion engine — became a stumbling block after engineers found the robot pivoted between different states too rapidly and unnaturally. 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It’s now in discussions with its French robotics unit, which employs about 330 people, on potential job reductions, she said. Reutersreportedearlier, citing unidentified sources, that SoftBank plans to cut roughly 50% of those positions in France by September.\nPepper, SoftBank’s first foray into robotics, was marketed from 2014 as a home companion and store assistant. Touted as the first machine endowed with emotions, the company marketed Pepper aggressively from the U.S. to Japan, promising the gadget was sophisticated enough for tasks usually handled by clerks, receptionists and translators.\nWhile the robot was capable of expressing human-like body language, maintaining eye contact and engaging in limited small talk, it never caught on. 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It’s now in discussions with its French robotics unit, which employs about 330 people, on potential job reductions, she said. Reutersreportedearlier, citing unidentified sources, that SoftBank plans to cut roughly 50% of those positions in France by September.\nPepper, SoftBank’s first foray into robotics, was marketed from 2014 as a home companion and store assistant. Touted as the first machine endowed with emotions, the company marketed Pepper aggressively from the U.S. to Japan, promising the gadget was sophisticated enough for tasks usually handled by clerks, receptionists and translators.\nWhile the robot was capable of expressing human-like body language, maintaining eye contact and engaging in limited small talk, it never caught on. 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It’s now in discussions with its French robotics unit, which employs about 330 people, on potential job reductions, she said. Reutersreportedearlier, citing unidentified sources, that SoftBank plans to cut roughly 50% of those positions in France by September.</p>\n<p>Pepper, SoftBank’s first foray into robotics, was marketed from 2014 as a home companion and store assistant. Touted as the first machine endowed with emotions, the company marketed Pepper aggressively from the U.S. to Japan, promising the gadget was sophisticated enough for tasks usually handled by clerks, receptionists and translators.</p>\n<p>While the robot was capable of expressing human-like body language, maintaining eye contact and engaging in limited small talk, it never caught on. Now, it looks like Pepper -- assembled by Taiwanese iPhone-makerHon Hai Precision Industry Co.-- is destined to joinHonda Motor Co.’s soccer-playing ASIMO andSony Group Corp.’s QRIO humanoids as the latest cool-but-impractical robot to come out of Japan.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a49b9c229e18ec7547949433a075e520\" tg-width=\"1000\" tg-height=\"666\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Pepper reminds travelers to social distance at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, in 2020.Photographer: Noriko Hayashi/Bloomberg</span></p>\n<p>SoftBank’s robotics group was created through the 2012 acquisition ofAldebaran Robotics SA. Its French engineers weresaidto have clashed with managers in Tokyo, including over complaints about unwieldy software. Pepper’s main selling point — the emotion engine — became a stumbling block after engineers found the robot pivoted between different states too rapidly and unnaturally. 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It’s now in discussions with its French robotics unit, which employs about 330 people, on potential job reductions, she said. Reutersreportedearlier, citing unidentified sources, that SoftBank plans to cut roughly 50% of those positions in France by September.\nPepper, SoftBank’s first foray into robotics, was marketed from 2014 as a home companion and store assistant. Touted as the first machine endowed with emotions, the company marketed Pepper aggressively from the U.S. to Japan, promising the gadget was sophisticated enough for tasks usually handled by clerks, receptionists and translators.\nWhile the robot was capable of expressing human-like body language, maintaining eye contact and engaging in limited small talk, it never caught on. 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Now, it looks like Pepper -- assembled by Taiwanese iPhone-makerHon Hai Precision Industry Co.-- is destined to joinHonda Motor Co.’s soccer-playing ASIMO andSony Group Corp.’s QRIO humanoids as the latest cool-but-impractical robot to come out of Japan.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a49b9c229e18ec7547949433a075e520\" tg-width=\"1000\" tg-height=\"666\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Pepper reminds travelers to social distance at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, in 2020.Photographer: Noriko Hayashi/Bloomberg</span></p>\n<p>SoftBank’s robotics group was created through the 2012 acquisition ofAldebaran Robotics SA. Its French engineers weresaidto have clashed with managers in Tokyo, including over complaints about unwieldy software. Pepper’s main selling point — the emotion engine — became a stumbling block after engineers found the robot pivoted between different states too rapidly and unnaturally. 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Now, it looks like Pepper -- assembled by Taiwanese iPhone-makerHon Hai Precision Industry Co.-- is destined to joinHonda Motor Co.’s soccer-playing ASIMO andSony Group Corp.’s QRIO humanoids as the latest cool-but-impractical robot to come out of Japan.\nPepper reminds travelers to social distance at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, in 2020.Photographer: Noriko Hayashi/Bloomberg\nSoftBank’s robotics group was created through the 2012 acquisition ofAldebaran Robotics SA. Its French engineers weresaidto have clashed with managers in Tokyo, including over complaints about unwieldy software. Pepper’s main selling point — the emotion engine — became a stumbling block after engineers found the robot pivoted between different states too rapidly and unnaturally. Only 27,000 units were ever made, Reuters reported.\nIn 2018, SoftBank introduced a more practical robot called Whiz, which cleans floors for businesses. 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Now, it looks like Pepper -- assembled by Taiwanese iPhone-makerHon Hai Precision Industry Co.-- is destined to joinHonda Motor Co.’s soccer-playing ASIMO andSony Group Corp.’s QRIO humanoids as the latest cool-but-impractical robot to come out of Japan.\nPepper reminds travelers to social distance at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, in 2020.Photographer: Noriko Hayashi/Bloomberg\nSoftBank’s robotics group was created through the 2012 acquisition ofAldebaran Robotics SA. Its French engineers weresaidto have clashed with managers in Tokyo, including over complaints about unwieldy software. Pepper’s main selling point — the emotion engine — became a stumbling block after engineers found the robot pivoted between different states too rapidly and unnaturally. Only 27,000 units were ever made, Reuters reported.\nIn 2018, SoftBank introduced a more practical robot called Whiz, which cleans floors for businesses. 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