Japanese phone company Softbank shows off its new robot customer service reps


Japanese telecom Softbank and its CEO Masayoshi Son have never been afraid to push the envelope, and now the exec is presenting a new development: robots. Presented at a press conference going on right now in Japan (take a peek at the live video stream embedded after the break) it's dubbed the Pepper Robot, and uses technology acquired from the French robotics company Aldebaran. Those are the folks behind the Nao humanoid robots we've been covering for years, from their first steps to the inevitable dance-offs that followed.


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