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JAPANESE TELECOM COMPANY SoftBank unveiled its own human-like robot called Pepper which it says is capable of reading people’s emotions and understanding feelings.
Described as the “world’s first personal robot with emotions,” Pepper uses voice recognition, and emotion recognition, which allows it to analyse expressions, gestures and voice tones, to learn and understand human interaction.
Its experiences are uploaded to a cloud AI system for other Pepper robots to use. This is to help further develop their own emotional capabilities and in turn, help it learn to act naturally.
The robot is just under four foot tall, has a display attached to its chest and is said to have around 12 hours of battery life. According to Softbank’s CEO Masayoshi Son, these robots can perform various tasks like act as store staff and communicate with people.
Developers will also have the chance to create apps for the robot, which would be incorporated into areas like motion, conversation and sensors, to help expand its capabilities.
The company will display prototype units in two of its Tokyo stores from tomorrow before rolling them out nationwide. Pepper will go on general sale in February for ¥198,000 (€1,420).
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People are causing dangerous conditions, not ice. Conditions are conditions.
Don’t make unnecessary journeys. Please take care on treacherous roads.
No. Icy conditions ‘slow things down’. Things like not indicating properly or not watching your mirrors, or unrestrained children, or worn tyres, now that’s what creates dangerous driving conditions.
Dublin City roads icy?
Main roads seem to be ok but there is some ice on smaller roads and in estates.
So much for commuting to Dublin for all the jobs that have created in Dublin in recession years ” gatzos vans , ice,snow, floods, tailbacks, parking, clamping,blood pressure,stress,long days ,poor quality of family live,tiredness, etc,
It would do you well to spend some time living outside Dublin and then you’d realise how easy you really have it. There were no buses running from my hometown in Cork this morning…think of all the people who rely purely on that bus (because we they don’t have the transport options you have) to get to work. And that happened every icy day in the past few years when I was living there.
We’re not all commuters. People drive in the morning for all sorts of reasons, not just to work.
Footpaths and roads (Cork) very bad walking the dog this morning, usual 25 minute route took us 40 minutes!
Thankfully I work from home on Fridays so that’s all I had to deal with.
Maryborough Woods is like an ice rink. Crash on Carr’s hill earlier due to ice. Traffic very slow on N28 from Douglas to Shanbally
Thanks, I’ll add that in to the liveblog now.
A lot of accidents around Cork this morning.
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