RoboticsMedium
SoftBank's Humanoid Robot, Pepper, Reportedly Frequently Made Errors, Prompting Dismissal
- Occurred
- Jul 13, 2021
- Published
- Jul 19, 2021
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
SoftBank's robot allegedly kept making mechanical errors, taking unplanned breaks, failing to recognize previously-met people, and breaking down during practice runs.
Developers
- Aldebaran
- SoftBank Robotics
Deployers
- SoftBank
Harmed parties
- SoftBank
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Incident involves physical humanoid robot failures and operational errors leading to employee dismissal.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8