POLOKWANE – Inermediate Phase learners at Mitchell House had the chance to interact with Pepper, the humanoid robot, during the Deftech Robot Day currently happening at the school.
According to Deftech’s website, Pepper sees and detects people in his environment. When Pepper sees that someone is looking at it, it will engage in dialogue with the person, and provides him or her with the anticipated service.
In the video, Pepper tells the learners that he is still young and that he was created in France to start working in Japan. He began working in a cellphone shop.
“I was also the first humanoid robot on one of the new seven wonders of the world, Table Mountain. I am really looking forward to going to see the rest of South Africa. You have a beautiful country… it makes for such an exciting adventure,” he said.
One of the learners asked Pepper whether or not robots can be evil, this is what he had to say:
Although Pepper is able to function without being connected to the internet, its performance is improved when it is connected to the Cloud via its Wi-Fi connection. This allows Pepper to access his advanced voice recognition and emotional analysis services.
Read the full story in next week’s Bonus.
