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| KIDS’ PAGES |<br />
Out With the Old robot, in With The new<br />
HELLO PEPPER<br />
Hey kids, moms and dads!<br />
My name is Pepper, and I am a humanoid robot.<br />
I am intended to make people happy, to enhance<br />
lives, facilitate relationships, introduce fun<br />
and learning and to connect people to the<br />
outside world.<br />
How many Peppers are there?<br />
There are currently four Pepper Robots in South Africa<br />
with more on their way! The companies investing in<br />
Pepper are looking to support interactions with clients that<br />
are repetitive and informative allowing for their current<br />
employees to be better utilised and upskilled to enhance<br />
their employees’ abilities, and thus their business.<br />
What is a humanoid robot?<br />
A humanoid robot is a device that has a body shaped<br />
like that of a human and which is designed for<br />
research or functional purposes, such as interacting<br />
with and in human environments.<br />
Pepper has been designed to identify your emotions<br />
and to select the behaviour best suited to the situation.<br />
Based on your voice, the expression on your<br />
face, your body movements and the words you<br />
use, Pepper will interpret your emotion and offer<br />
appropriate content.<br />
Where did Pepper come from?<br />
Pepper Robot was launched in Japan in 2014 by the<br />
French Company Aldebaran, which is owned by the<br />
Japanese company, Softbank. We’re still in the early<br />
days of robot and human interaction.<br />
Scott Giles<br />
MD Deftech<br />
010 590 0740<br />
scott@deftech.co<br />
www.deftech.co<br />
You can find out more at<br />
@pepperrobotsa on an<br />
educational series on Pepper<br />
that’s being run in South Africa.<br />
Or Tweet them, by using the<br />
handle @pepperrobotsa and<br />
#pepperrobotinsa.<br />
Robots, as we South Africans know them, are either<br />
found at busy intersections or on production lines but<br />
that is all changing now. Pepper is currently deployed<br />
around the world in retail, hospitality, elderly care,<br />
airports and banking environments, with developers<br />
developing more apps to support different sectors all<br />
the time.<br />
Would you like Pepper to come<br />
and visit your school?<br />
Cut this box out and give it to your teacher by<br />
18 June and Pepper could come and visit you!<br />
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