SoftBank Robotics
Commercial Research T3
Overview
SoftBank Robotics’ Pepper is a widely known commercial service robot with a humanoid upper body and wheeled base used for interaction in public-facing environments. It is included under the 'humanoid upper-body' category, but it is not a general-purpose bipedal labor humanoid. This row requires stronger primary evidence and clear program status in subsequent batches.
Robot & Capabilities
Program Pepper
Type Humanoid upper-body
Capabilities • Social interaction; • wheeled base; • touchscreen
Target Use Cases Customer service; education; engagement
Evidence & Demos
Stage Evidence Included as widely commercialized humanoid-form service robot; requires primary source capture in later batch. (Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper_(robot, https://www.softbankrobotics.com/)
Data Provenance
Scope Confidence Low
Data Confidence Low
Last Verified 2026-01-08