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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]
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 ...
Mindar (Japanese: マインダー), also known as Android Kannon Mindar, is an android preacher at the Kōdai-ji temple in Kyoto, Japan. The humanoid robot regularly gives sermons on the Heart Sutra at the 400-year-old Zen Buddhist temple. It was created to represent and embody Kannon, [a] a bodhisattva associated with compassion.
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 ...
SoftBank's robot Pepper isn't designed to do any heavy lifting or household chores, but it does promise to be a constant source of companionship and emotional support. It appears that's just fine ...
The KHR-1 is a programmable, bipedal humanoid robot introduced in June 2004 by a Japanese company Kondo Kagaku.At the time of its introduction it was one of the least expensive programmable bipedal robots (prices averaging around $1,600 in the United States and ¥128,000 in Japan).
Don't worry, the gruesome image (above) of SoftBank's Pepper isn't part of Elon Musk's robot takedown plan. It's actually a teardown by Japanese website Nikkei showing exactly what makes the ...
In addition to distributing SoftBank’s Pepper, Nao, [10] and Whiz robots, [4] [5] [11] [12] which can be used as personal assistants and educational tools, RobotLAB also provides educational robots designed for use in K-12 and other classrooms. [1] Their robots are programmed to help instructors teach subjects such as STEM. [13] [14] [15]