At the IBM Cognitive Studio at SXSW, the company demoed its beloved emotion-reading robot, Pepper. More than 7,000 robots have been deployed at Japanese stores, cruise ships and hotels, with goals of providing guest services, entertainment, and advertising promotional events. This year, IBM and SoftBank want to start putting Pepper in retailers in the US and Europe, and are currently looking for software partners to build applications that work best for those retail needs. We met up with Pepper for a brief demo, and put its emotion-reading skills to the test. The demo version of Pepper at the core is still quite basic…
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