Meet - Pepper, a robot, understanding emotions

President of Japanese mobile operator Sina Masayoshi June 5 presented to the public a humanoid robot. This machine is capable of identifying emotions to communicate with her man.
In the sale of the invention will come in February of next year and is expected to cost about $ 1,900. Plans foreign supplies robot are still under consideration.
Machine that does not have legs, but capable of actively gesticulating hands, appeared on the scene of one of the suburbs of Tokyo. It is programmed to read emotions, facial expressions and voice signals all around and, according to Masayoshi, should be the first robot capable of smiling people. Although the initiative to create a "cute robot" in Japan is not innovative. Such devices are already invented, although they were made in the form of animals, not people.
Almost 28-pound Pepper can tell his interlocutor anecdote, sing and even dance. In addition, he has a voice recognition system, motion sensors and determining facial expressions of the speaker, cameras, microphones and the ability to connect to the Internet (for example, to retain or obtain information using cloud technologies) as using a Wi-Fi-module, and the usual , wired way. In the case of the owner of the robot may need to improve its functionality by installing a new software.