Social RoboticsAldebaran, maker of Pepper and Nao, placed in receivership
The Paris company behind two of the best-known social robots entered compulsory liquidation after failing to find a buyer.
A French judicial panel placed Aldebaran into receivership, following a reported bankruptcy filing in February 2025 and the collapse of two potential sale deals. The company said it had sold about 20,000 Nao and 17,000 Pepper robots in 70 countries, making them fixtures of HRI research labs, classrooms and retail. Owner United Robotics Group, which bought the business from SoftBank in 2022, had stopped funding it in 2024. The failure was a landmark moment for the social robotics field, showing how hard it remains to build a sustainable business around social humanoids.
Source: The Robot Report
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