Its 2015 acquisition of Aldebaran didn’t go as smoothly as SoftBank hoped. At the time, the French robotics startup was best known for its Nao, which had become a fairly ubiquitous presence in resea
Until now, Pepper the robot has required programming knowledge to control, a fact that’s proven a pain point toward wider adoption (well, that and the fact that it hasn't started shipping widely her
And we're yet another step closer to the <a href="https://techcrunch.com/tag/robocalypse/">Robocalypse</a>: mini humanoid <a href="https://techcrunch.com/tag/nao/">Nao</a> (pronounced "Now"), which wa
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A French company exporting robots (of all things) to Japan? Paris-based <a href="http://www.a