SoftBank's 2014 predictions of a new personal robot era now seem overly optimistic

SoftBank's 2014 predictions of a new personal robot era now seem overly optimistic

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When SoftBank Group Corp’s CEO Masayoshi Son unveiled the wide-eyed android Pepper in 2014, he painted a vision, once confined to science fiction, of a new era of personal robots in which his company would be the industry leader.

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