🇯🇵 Pepper
SoftBank Robotics / Aldebaran · Japan / France · unveiled 2014
retired
supervised-autonomy
electric
data confidence: high
40.8
XHI Score
Rank #45 of 71
Score breakdown
Autonomy & Intelligence · 25%75.0
Manipulation & Dexterity · 20%2.5
Mobility & Locomotion · 15%63.3
Hardware & Engineering · 15%41.7
Commercial Readiness & Deployment · 15%35.0
Ecosystem & Viability · 10%5.0
Each pillar is scored 0–100 from published specs, then weighted into the overall XHI. See the full methodology →
Notable
Pepper was the first mass-produced social humanoid (~27,000 units), a wheeled, emotion-reading robot used in retail and hospitality. It moves on three omnidirectional wheels (not bipedal) at up to 3 km/h and was discontinued after Aldebaran's 2025 bankruptcy.
Deployments & partners
- retail
- hospitality
- healthcare
- banking
- airports
- education/research
Specifications
Height
120.0 cm
Weight
28.0 kg
Payload
—
Walking speed
0.83 m/s
Runtime
12.0 h
Battery
0.795 kWh
Total DoF
20
Hand DoF (per hand)
1
Dexterous hands
No
Actuation
electric
Onboard compute
Intel Atom processor (NAOqi OS)
AI model
—
Indicative price
$25,000
Company valuation
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