Developers look to widen repertoire of Pepper, Japan's laughing robot

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http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/0dkwD2NtzkkVuzu2tWTXkg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3NfbGVnbztmaT1maWxsO2g9ODY7cT03NTt3PT EzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2016-05-20T030643Z_1006990001_LYNXNPEC4J047_RTROPTP_2_CTEC H-US-JAPAN-ROBOT.JPG (http://news.yahoo.com/developers-look-widen-repertoire-pepper-japans-laughing-robot-030643709.html)Japanese developers of a robot are asking the public to come up with ideas for what their waist-high humanoid can do and they are offering a software development kit for programmers to get creative. The fast-selling robot, known as Pepper, can already laugh and serve coffee and is being used as a waiter, salesman and customer service representative in about 500 companies in Japan, including Nestle, Mizuho Bank and Nissan. Now its creators, SoftBank Corp, have started offering a kit, Pepper SDK for Android Studio, that will allow programmers to develop new tasks.



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