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Pepper is not a functional robot for domestic use. Instead, Pepper is intended "to make people enjoy life", enhance people's lives, facilitate relationships, have fun with people and connect people with the outside world. [28] Pepper's creators hope that independent developers will create new content and uses for Pepper. [29]
Folks in Japan might find themselves chatting with Pepper robots in business establishments these coming years. The enterprise version of the gentle-looking humanoid machine will be available for ...
Pepper, a humanoid, waves while leading a group of senior citizens in exercises. ... About 5,000 are in use globally, including 3,000 in Japan. But Paro, like most robots, is expensive: 400,000 ...
Sony has had some tough times recently, and while it's finally started to make some difficult changes in a bid to turn its fortunes around, the Archives building is where the company's success ...
The first known robotic pet was a robot dog called Sparko, built by the American company Westinghouse in 1940. It never got sold due to poor public interest [citation needed]. The first robotic pets to be put on the market were Hasbro's Furby in 1998 and Sony's AIBO in 1999. [1] Since then, robotic pets have grown increasingly advanced.
Spot, Olie Polie's pet robot dog in Rolie Polie Olie. The Mechanical Hound, a robotic hunter killer who serves the firemen as a scent hound in the book Fahrenheit 451. Its mouth conceals a syringe containing tranquilizers. Toby, the robot dog who was the companion of Halo Jones in the classic comic story The Ballad of Halo Jones.
With Japan's population aging and shrinking, priests are in need of help -- and that's what Pepper is here for. In Japan, robot-for-hire programmed to perform Buddhist funeral rites Skip to main ...
A young boy finds a robot dog in a forest under a pile of garbage. The two become close and spend time playing, fishing, and biking together as the seasons change. The boy gets older and, during a fireworks display, his city starts getting bombed. The boy leaves the city while the dog gets left behind to watch as it gets decimated.