Pepper, a humanoid robot from SoftBank robotics company, is designed to be a shopping concierge. Besides detecting your physical presence, Pepper can also read your emotions, offer advice, and help shoppers make informed purchasing decisions. The four-foot-tall robot with big blinking eyes is equipped with sensors, radar, lidar, microphones, 2D and 3D cameras, facial recognition software, and the same language processing software as Apple’s Siri.
Steve Carlin, vice president and general manager of SoftBank tells Independent Retailer, “Pepper was developed specifically to interact with humans. Pepper can move and turn to address the person it is interacting with.
