Pepper is a Japanese emotional robot.

In Japan, created a robot that responds to gestures

In Japan, created a robot with artificial intelligence that perceives and responds to the emotions of people. The developer of Pepper is Softbank, which laid the basis for the development of an “emotional” engine and cloud technologies that allow analyzing not just gestures and facial expressions, but also the emotional color of voices. The Japanese worked with the French company Aldebaran Robotics.

The developers claim that the robot can be given tasks that it performs successfully, and communicate with him as with an ordinary person. It can be purchased for free sale very soon at a price of almost $ 2 thousand.

Usually, a robot is called a person with a lack of empathy, who does not express emotions, etc. But now we may have to reconsider that definition.

CEO of the company-developer Masayoshi Son

So that potential buyers and visitors can get acquainted with the novelty closer, two prototypes of Pepper are on display in their stores. In the near future, they will appear in other Softbank outlets.



There is a great demand for robots in Japan and it is expected to increase. The reason is the low birth rate, which has led to the aging of the population of the country.



They, in the near future, will not only be used in production, but will also replace in human life: care for elderly people and animals. Panasonic and Honda already have experience in the development of home robots. With one of them, Obama even managed to play football on his last visit to the country.

And this is just the beginning of a new dimension in people’s lives and a new interaction with innovative technologies.

Aldebaran Robotics CEO Bruno Masonnier





Source: planetologia.ru/