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Pepper the robot is a semi-humanoid robot made by Softbank Robotics, a company owned by Softbank group. The Softbank Robotics was formerly known as Aldebaraan robotics which is a French company and later acquired by the Japanese Softbank.  Here are the features of Pepper the robot:

* 20 motors - 6 motors for each arms, 3 in wheels, 2 for hips, 1 for knee
* Play music and sound
* Some LED in the eyes to show emotions through changing colors
* 4 Microphones on the head
* Cameras and 3D sensor in the face
* Sensors, gyro-meters and lasers for ease of navigation
* It runs on an atom card CPU with 2 CPU cores, 1 MB RAM and 1.6 GHz.

Pepper can detect your emotion via your face or voice. It can also sense the origins of the sounds, understand words, remember the places where he has been already.

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