Researchers from Europe and Israel have built a robot that can pick ripe peppers in a greenhouse. The bot could ease employee shortages in the farming industry.

And Pepper’s latest gig involves computer programming education in Japanese schools. Robotics technology is widely used in manufacturing production lines and the transport of goods around the world.

Japanese technology company SoftBank denies it’s pulling the plug on its friendly, bubble-headed Pepper robot.

Japanese technology company SoftBank denies it’s pulling the plug on its friendly, bubble-headed Pepper robot.