Pepper the Robot On-Sale in the U.S. Next Year
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“Heez goal iz to make you better…feel better.” Freudian slip?
Pepper the Robot is coming to Sprint stores next year, probably for just under two grand. Inspired by the idea of Astro Boy, Pepper dances, makes jokes, estimates human emotions based on expressions, and tries to connect you to friends if you’re feeling depressed. Pepper also presumably stares blankly into nothingness when turned off – sorry, but I’m suspicious of anything that looks like this:
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Check out some video of Pepper that is totally in no way creepy…
h/t James.k.Polk, who will presumably have to start selling these
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Luke Y. Thompson has been writing professionally about movies and pop-culture since 1999, and has also been an actor in some extremely cheap culty and horror movies you will probably never hear much about (he is nonetheless mostly proud of them, as he met his wife on one). As editor of The Robot's Voice since 2012, he can take the blame for the majority of the site's content, all of which he creates because he loves you very, very much. (Although he loves nachos more. Sorry.) Prior to TRV, Luke wrote for publications that include the New Times LA, Los Angeles CityBeat, E! Online, OC Weekly, Geekweek, GeekChicDaily, The L.A. Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Nerdist