Japanese giant Softbank now owns 95% of the shares in French robotics company Aldebaran. The new shares come from Bruno Maisonnier, who will step down as CEO of the company he founded on March 4.
Softbank took a 78.5% interest in Aldebaran in 2011. In 2014, Masayoshi Son, chairman and CEO of SoftBank, introduced Pepper, a humanoid robot with a cloud-base intelligence system that, according to Softbank, allows Pepper to read human emotions based on facial expressions and tone of voice
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The robot stands roughly 4 feet tall and launched in Japan last year, but has yet to make it to the U.S. Thanks to an IBM Watson backend, Pepper has already learned to speak Japanese Read more…
