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A Must See- World's First Emotional Robot by alex2242(m): 8:41am On Jun 23, 2015 |
Pepper the humanoid robot is so hot that he sold out within a minute, according to his Japanese creator, SoftBank Robotics Corp. Only 1,000 models were available for the consumer launch on Saturday in Japan . The base price was set at ¥198,000 ($1,600) with an additional ¥24,600 ($200) monthly data and insurance fees. Standing just under four feet tall, and weighing 61 pounds, Pepper is designed to read emotions as well as recognize tones of voice and facial expressions in order to interact with humans. But most of all, "he tries to make you happy," Kaname Hayashi, Softbank's project manager, told CNN last year. With his array of cameras, touch sensors, accelerometer and other sensors in his "endocrine-type multi-layer neural network," Pepper has the ability to read your emotions as well as develop his own. He isn't a work robot, but more of an emotional companion for people. Pepper has his own evolving emotions which "are influenced by people's facial expressions and words, as well as his surroundings," according to SoftBank. "Pepper is at ease when he is with people he knows, happy when praised and scared when the lights go down." Developers admit that the robot may make mistakes, but says Pepper will learn and grow over time through his own emotional engine and collective wisdom gained through collected cloud data. Pepper currently has the ability to speak English, French, Japanese and Spanish. In the next few months, there will be more language releases in its app store, which already has around 200 apps. The business side of Pepper Two days prior to Peppers initial limited release, SoftBank announced a new partnership with the Apple manufacturer Foxconn and the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, which each agreed to invest ¥14.5 billion (over $118 million) for 20 percent shares in SoftBank Robotics Holding. SoftBank envisions Pepper as a first step in spreading robotics worldwide. Softbank is willing to sell Pepper at a loss for the first four years, but expect the robot to bring in profits by the fifth year and become a major force in revenues 20 to 30 years in the future. Company officials stated that they want to keep Pepper affordable, and compared the price of the robot to that of a pet dog in Japan, according to a press event held last week. SoftBank also plans to launch "Pepper for Biz" in the fall, making the robot available for businesses and will announce details in July. Pepper has already been used to sell Nestle coffee machines in Japanese stores. Interested in buying your own Pepper robot? SoftBank will be releasing information about additional sales on their website in July. edition.cnn.com/2015/06/22/tech/pepper-robot-sold-out/index.html
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Re: A Must See- World's First Emotional Robot by yatch360: 9:15am On Jun 23, 2015 |
A robot that can read ones emotions.... Hmmmm the human being is very complex that he himself is yet to understand fully his emotions and abilities...hope the robot wld be able to decipher a false emotion |
Re: A Must See- World's First Emotional Robot by eliascomm55: 9:22am On Jun 23, 2015 |
Hmmmn |
Re: A Must See- World's First Emotional Robot by naijathings(m): 10:03am On Jun 23, 2015 |
iRobot.... here we go. |
Re: A Must See- World's First Emotional Robot by Nobody: 10:42am On Jun 23, 2015 |
Reading human emotions doesn't make it emotional, as far as I am concern, it is not a new technology to read human emotion. The process is just detecting the increase/decrease in heart beat, changes in hormones etc as in lie detector. Making the robot to react base on the emotion is very simple, using a simple functions built on basic conditional statement. The hard thing is having to detect all these without having to touch the subject (sensor?) I don't think it is possible for human to make an emotional robot because humans cannot understand or explains emotions eg. Love, Anger, Hate etc and as a 'mediocre' programmer, I can't tell you you cannot programme something don't understand. Emotional robots is a science fiction. |
Re: A Must See- World's First Emotional Robot by prdeal: 9:20pm On Mar 23, 2018 |
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Re: A Must See- World's First Emotional Robot by prdeal: 9:21pm On Mar 23, 2018 |
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