Beyond Pepper: SoftBank charts new course in robotics with AI

Group puts robot investments under one holding company to coordinate strategy

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Pepper interacts with people via a tablet on its chest. (Photo by Shun Kato)

YUSUKE YAGI and MOMOKO IMAMURA

TOKYO -- SoftBank Group's decade-old Pepper robots have served as a mascot for the technology company, but the Japanese business has adopted more ambitious plans and structural changes on the belief that artificial intelligence will propel robotics to new breakthroughs.

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