🔬 Corporate#86 Tokyo, Japan· Est. 2012
SoftBank Robotics — R&D
Created Pepper — the world's most widely deployed social robot — and NAO — the most used humanoid research platform with 10,000+ units in universities. SoftBank acquired Boston Dynamics (later sold to Hyundai).
social robotshumanoidcleaning robotsretail robotsPepper/NAO
Notable achievements
Pepper (10,000+ deployed), NAO (10,000+ in education), Whiz cleaning robot, Keenon investment, Aldebaran acquisition (NAO creator).
Notable work
PepperNAOWhiz
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
LOCOMOTION
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MIND: Multi-Scale Intent Diffusion for Text-Driven Physics-Based Humanoid Control
Bin Li, Ruichi Zhang, Han Liang +4 more
2026
LOCOMOTION
Open access
SPRINT: Efficient Spectral Priors for Humanoid Athletic Sprints
Yantong Wei, Kaihong Huang, Hainan Pan +6 more
2026
HRI
Open access
Robo-Blocks: Generative Scaffolding in End-User Design and Programming of Social Robots
Arissa J. Sato, Callie Y. Kim, Nathan Thomas White +4 more
2026
LEARNING
Open access
HumanoidMimicGen: Data Generation for Loco-Manipulation via Whole-Body Planning
Kevin Lin, Ajay Mandlekar, Caelan Reed Garrett +7 more
2026