SoftBank Robotics
Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan
Focus: Humanoid, Social
SoftBank Robotics is known for creating social robots (Pepper, NAO) with interactive, human-like communication for retail, hospitality, and education.
Year Founded: 2005
Funding Stage: Owned by SoftBank
Robots from SoftBank Robotics
Pepper
Purpose: Pepper is a wheeled social robot designed to interact with people in public settings such as retail stores and hotels, featuring multilingual speech and emotional recognition.
Speed: N/A (wheeled robot up to ~3 km/h)
Payload: Limited payload (mostly for tablet-based interacti
Dexterity: Friendly anthropomorphic design, emotional recogni