For the first time, SoftBank Robotics' Pepper, the adorable and tiny humanoid robot helper, will be available to purchase in the US. Pepper reads human emotion, follows your motion with her eyes, and costs less than a high-end television set. She retails for under $2,000 USD in Japan (US pricing unknown as of yet).
Pepper looks awfully similar to how one might imagine Siri in physical form and is an exciting step toward the robot assistant-filled future a lot of us hope to see. The bot... read more