The entire article is well worth a read as a reminder that tech is hard, and predicting its impact on society ... sensor, Pepper greeted him, “Nice to meet you!” He shipped the robot back ...

Pepper is about four feet tall ... a specialist in human-robot interaction at MIT. In other words, robots that look like people (or animals) get treated like people (or animals).

A 4-foot tall humanoid robot named Pepper, made by Aldebaran ... But the way that we interact with robots, both at home and in society, also raises other questions. The mere presence of a robot ...

For those who don’t remember, Pepper is the “personal robot that reads emotions,” which SoftBank ... to move the robotics industry forward in a way that not only benefits society, but brings value to ...

Scroll down for video Pepper is made ... have a growing impact on society. It highlights speech recognition, image analysis, driverless cars, translation and robot motion as having benefited ...

Pepper the robot – a Franco-Japanese-made ... Its consequences for multiple aspects of human society – from labour, to defence, to healthcare, to, of course, education – are assumed to ...

Each robot costs 198,000 yen (around $1,610 ... Sexbots, as my colleague Bonnie Burton pointed out, clearly have their place in society. Pepper, though, is a different beast.

"Pepper is probably the most 'personable' robot on the market in terms of its ... "While a social robot in every home is probably a long way off for society, I see a place for social robots ...

Pepper, a “culturally competent robot,” was tested on care home residents ... “Social care is incredibly stretched and we have an ageing society.” “Of course we could never have ...

And I think when society is transformed ... even cited “Astro Boy” as the inspiration for a robot that his business introduced this year. “Pepper,” developed by a French firm that SoftBank ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Pepper the robot is coming to our shores later this year, and its creators want the help of Android developers to help make it smarter. Japan-based SoftBank Robotics ...