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SoftBank and Alibaba to Produce Chinese Version Pepper

By Korbin Lan
Published: Oct 14,2016

SoftBank Robotics Holdings yesterday announced that the company is going to expand its humanoid robot ‘Pepper’ business in the China market by establishing a joint venture with Alibaba Group.

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According to SoftBank, the new joint venture named “Alibaba Robot Corporation”, is a joint venture between Alibaba Group and SoftBank Group Corp, will work on the robotic business in China with plans to offer Pepper to developer customers as a service unique in China.

In addition, the China-made Pepper will be powered by ‘YunOS’, an operating system developed by Alibaba. The new YunOS-enabled Pepper prototype will be displayed at the Alibaba Cloud 2016 Computing Conference, in Hangzhou from October 13-16.

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