{"id":13270,"date":"2015-01-18T03:00:41","date_gmt":"2015-01-18T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13270"},"modified":"2017-04-18T10:50:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T17:50:38","slug":"how-aldebaran-robotics-built-its-friendly-humanoid-robot-pepper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/how-aldebaran-robotics-built-its-friendly-humanoid-robot-pepper","title":{"rendered":"How Aldebaran Robotics Built Its Friendly Humanoid Robot, Pepper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Erico Guizzo \u2014 IEEE Spectrum<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lqlyxg1-gE0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The robot seems <\/strong>determined to put a bigger smile on the man\u2019s face. \u201cAre you smiling from the bottom of your heart?\u201d it asks. The man chuckles. \u201cThat\u2019s what I\u2019m talking about,\u201d the robot quips in a high-pitched voice. Then, just for good measure, it bows its plastic head and apologizes for being \u201ctoo bossy to our CEO.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The CEO is Masayoshi Son, founder and chairman of telecom giant SoftBank and Japan\u2019s richest person. As such, he has overseen the development of hundreds of new products as part of a vast conglomerate of mobile-phone carriers, Internet ventures, and media companies. But last June, at a press conference outside Tokyo, Son climbed onstage to <a href=\"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/automaton\/robotics\/home-robots\/pepper-aldebaran-softbank-personal-robot\">unveil a pet project: a humanoid robot named Pepper<\/a>. Designed to be a companion in the home, it is the world\u2019s first full-scale humanoid to be offered to consumers. In February, SoftBank plans to start selling it in Japan for 198,000 yen (less than US $2,000), plus a monthly subscription fee. Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn, known for building iPhones and iPads for Apple, will produce the robots.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/robotics\/home-robots\/how-aldebaran-robotics-built-its-friendly-humanoid-robot-pepper\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Erico Guizzo \u2014 IEEE Spectrum The robot seems determined to put a bigger smile on the man\u2019s face. \u201cAre you smiling from the bottom of your heart?\u201d it asks. The man chuckles. \u201cThat\u2019s what I\u2019m talking about,\u201d the robot quips in a high-pitched voice. Then, just for good measure, it bows its plastic head [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52335,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13270\/revisions\/52335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}