Drunk man arrested for kicking emotion-reading robot because he ‘didn’t like his attitude’
Sep08
When SoftBank’s emotion-reading robot Pepper went on sale last June, the $1,600 humanoid sold out in just one minute. But it appears not everyone’s as in love with Pepper as you’d think. A 60-year old man was arrested yesterday at a SoftBank Corp. store in Japan after drunkenly kicking Pepper, causing technical damage to the robot. The Japan Times reports that Pepper was mostly unharmed, though it now moves slower and its internal system may be broken. How could you abuse this adorable face?? The man admitted to kicking Pepper, citing that he “did not like the attitude” of the store clerk.…
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