Pepper
SoftBank Robotics · Humanoid · Japan

A social humanoid designed for human interaction in retail, hospitality, and healthcare settings. Pepper detects faces, recognizes emotions, and engages in natural conversation with multi-language speech synthesis.
Specifications
| Degrees of freedom | 17 |
|---|---|
| Weight | 28 kg |
| Battery life | 12 h |
| Payload | N/A (no arms lifting) |
| Max speed | 1.0 m/s |
| Actuators | Brushless DC Servo Motors |
| Primary sensor | Stereo cameras + 3D Depth Sensor + 4x Microphones |
| Function | Social interaction |
| Released | 2014 |
| Status | Active |
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