SoftBank has received $236 million to develop its household robot

Last year, SoftBank proved to us that household robots will be within our reach in the future when it unveiled Pepper. A thousand models of the intelligent robot have already been made available to early adopting customers, but now SoftBank has received $236 million in funding from Alibaba and Foxconn to take the development and production of Pepper to the next level, which includes a business-centric variant of the robot.