should I be afraid of you have you seen
my Instagram I'm just plain cute you
already know about digital assistants
like Siri and Alexa but the next step
are a bunch of robots designed to help
you out one of the most recognizable was
pepper which comes from Softbank
robotics pepper has been out for a few
years and it recently gained the ability
to have conversations with people hi
pepper hey thanks for joining us it's my
pleasure to help tell me about yourself
my name is I'm a humanoid robot and I'm
one point twenty meters tall I was born
in suffering robotics you can keep on
asking me questions if you want why do
they call you pepper pepper is an easy
name to remember it also translates well
into other languages how old are you I'm
a little over four years old since when
I was born in Paris you come from Paris
I'm originally from Paris ah Paris do
you have any feelings I don't understand
how about a talking pepper is far from
perfect if it didn't know the answer to
a question I asked it would spit out a
bunch of silly answers are you confused
can you wave I don't understand how
about it you're cute thank you what a
sweet thing to say
do you know Siri yes I guess
pepper is designed to be sort of a kiosk
at businesses like shopping malls
hospitals and doctors offices
what kind of hosting duties can you do
host is a solution where I work at
businesses creating customers
businesses can customize the information
I provide their customers
I can inform people with their
appointments arrive how much do you cost
well if you ask me they priceless but
our sales team can tell you more pepper
is also an open platform meaning new
features can be added over time this is
just the first step
there's nothing stopping developers from
improving peppers chat capabilities
eventually peppers should be able to
hold complete conversations what kind of
jobs will robots do in the future
I was thinking Mars I hear from you on
that's the future you're going to Mars
Thanks
I try are you making humans obsolete I'm
here to work with them is there going to
be a robot uprising I try to stay out of
politics are you gonna take over the
world look I'm barely keeping up with
you in this conversation
I'm not taking over anything but your
heart I mean true I love you that's
great to hear
I expected more of a reaction out of
that one see saw motor functions that
does not work on me