Over a year after its initial launch in Japan, SoftBank is bringing its Pepper robot to Taiwanese businesses. This is the first time it’s available outside Japan. A subsidiary of Foxconn called Perobot is handling orders in Taiwan, which will likely be similarly priced to the bot in Japan. Pepper costs around $16,000 for three years of use.
The robot Pepper is now on sale in Taiwan
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Softbank said developer models of Pepper would be available for preorder in the US this month, although that hasn’t happened yet. The humanoid now has both an Android SDK and a Watson one. So maybe, someday soon, we’ll get to meet Pepper.
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