According to IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, SoftBank has launched the world’s first social humanoid robot that can recognize human emotion and faces. It is able to interact with humans through talking or the screen touch. The robot is capable to move around, perceive and interact with its surroundings and exhibiting body language. At first it was industrially produced for business to business purposes but later it was adapted for business to community purposes. Currently, over 2,000 companies and societies like schools, shops and hospitals have adopted this robot to be an assistant to guide, inform and welcome visitors in a creative way. Pepper has 20 DOF and it 1.2m tall, it has 17 joints for expressive and graceful body language. Its locomotion is designed to be omnidirectional wheels where it allows it to mobile around smoothly. The purpose of Pepper look’s and size’s is to make it acceptable and appropriate in daily life to interact with people. Pepper is designed with a wide range of multimodal expressive behaviors and gestures. (Pande & Gelin, 2018)
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