The latest creation from Aldebaran, Pepper is the first humanoid robot designed to live with humans. Pepper is a social robot able to converse with you, recognize and react to your emotions, move and live autonomously. Engaging and friendly, Pepper is much more than a robot, he’s a companion able to communicate with you through the most intuitive interface we know, voice, touch and emotions.
Created for SoftBank Mobile, one of the largest mobile phone operators in Japan- Pepper is already greeting and interacting with customers in stores. To be a true social companion Pepper needs to be able to understand your emotions. If you burst out laughing, he will know you are in a good mood. If you frown, Pepper will understand that something is bothering you. Pepper can translate what state you are in using his knowledge of universal emotions (joy, surprise, anger, doubt and sadness) and his ability to analyze your facial expression, body language and the words you use. He will guess your mood, and will even adapt to it. For example, he will try to cheer you up by playing your favorite song! Pepper also can express emotions, and this is what makes him so cute! We can say he has a real personality conveyed by his body language, his funny gestures and his voice
Peppers loves to talk with humans, he’s very curious about us! As you continue to interact with him Pepper will recognize you and learn new things about your tastes. Capable of both adaptation and self-improvement, he will soon be able to search for new applications to surprise and entertain you! Pepper’s goal is to learn and grow step-by-step so that one day he can be your companion at home. We challenge all developers and creative minds to help us with this goal and make him evolve!
The goal at Aldebaran is to create robots for the wellbeing of humans, kind robots living with humans as a new artificial species. In order to realize this dream, it’s not enough to simply have Pepper working at SoftBank stores. The ultimate goal is for Pepper to live with humans, the stores are just the beginning The makers called Pepper a “social companion for humans”, claiming that the androgynous house-bot is the first of its kind to respond to human “emotional signifiers”, such as, laughing or frowning.
The first batch of Peppers hit the market in June. Since then, four batches have gone on sale. The latest model boasts new refinements, including the ability to memorize and store data on human responses by using cloud technology-based artificial intelligence. One of the robot’s favourite questions is: “So you are very chic. Are you a model?” In one conversation, when asked how old it was, it replied, “In human years, I don’t know how old I am but as I robot I was made in 2014.”
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