Thursday, 19 May 2016
Last summer, SoftBank offered up 1,000 units of its humanoid robot ‘Pepper’ to the US market — they sold out in under a minute. Now, SoftBank is planning additional availability of the popular robot in addition to some surprising new capabilities that should get developers excited. Today, at Google I/O, the Japanese tech company announced it was opening up a new developer portal — and adding SDK Android Studio — to enable custom development of applications to extend Pepper’s capabilities ahead of the US launch. After the announcement at CES that SoftBank was bringing Watson’s artificial intelligence to the already smart humanoid assistant,…
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