{"id":17418,"date":"2015-09-17T09:33:28","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T16:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/japans-friendly-robot-is-getting-a-snarky-attitude-adjustment-for-americans"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:39:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:39:48","slug":"japans-friendly-robot-is-getting-a-snarky-attitude-adjustment-for-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/japans-friendly-robot-is-getting-a-snarky-attitude-adjustment-for-americans","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s Friendly Robot Is Getting a Snarky Attitude Adjustment For Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8HXhsKpETXE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Japanese humanoid robot <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/you-can-now-buy-pepper-the-robot-that-reads-your-emoti-1712216532\">Pepper<\/a>, which sold out of its first 1,000 units in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/06\/22\/tech\/pepper-robot-sold-out\/\" target=\"_blank\">one minute<\/a> in Japan this June, will get a personality makeover for the US market: it\u2019ll go from cute and bubbly to snarky and sarcastic, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/news\/541171\/a-japanese-robot-is-learning-the-american-way\/\" target=\"_blank\">MIT Technology Review<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Editor Will Knight met a Pepper unit in Boston this week, and reported back some very distinct changes in the robot\u2019s personality designed to make it more appealing to Americans: High fives instead of bows; smartass swipes instead of songs. In the MIT report, Knight said he asked an Americanized Pepper if it\u2019s like Terminator, to which it responded: \u201cDo I really have to answer that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pepper is a robot that\u2019s designed to recognize human emotions, and is supposed to read social situations so it can interact with you like a person can. And since people already ask Siri questions that get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/technology\/article\/14-questions-or-statements-that-get-snarky-6361514.php\" target=\"_blank\">sassy comebacks<\/a>, Pepper\u2019s gotta be ready.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/japans-friendly-robot-is-getting-a-snarky-c-3po-attitud-1731318111\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese humanoid robot Pepper, which sold out of its first 1,000 units in one minute in Japan this June, will get a personality makeover for the US market: it\u2019ll go from cute and bubbly to snarky and sarcastic, MIT Technology Review reports. Editor Will Knight met a Pepper unit in Boston this week, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":360,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17418","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\/360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64185,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17418\/revisions\/64185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}