Pepper , Japan ’s talk , humanoid robot that reads emotion and tells you joke when you ’re lamentable , sell out of its initial 1,000 unitsin one minuteback in June . But apparently the robotisn’t beloved by everyone .
A intoxicated 60 - class - old adult male reportedly kicked a Pepper unit in Yokohama Sunday morning time after getting piss at a ( human ) store clerk in a SoftBank mobile phone phone storage . ( SoftBank is thetelecom giantthat bankrolled Pepper ontogenesis . ) The clerk was unharmed , but the four - foot , 62 - Ezra Pound robot was n’t : Now it prompt slower and and its interior computer system might be break .
A Pepper unit costs 198,000 hankering , or around $ 1,600 US . The inebriated man was arrested for wipeout of place , Japan Times reports .
Robot faculty is slowly being rolled out in Japan inshops , hotels , andairports . It ’s unclear if the assaulted Pepper was in reality helping out faculty , or was simply on display . Regardless , the incident hearkens back to thehitchBOTbrouhaha earlier this summer , when a Canada - made humanoid hitchhiker made it through NYC and New England safely before beingtorn limb from limbon the street of Philly .
robot are only going to becomemore and more coarse in our everyday livesin the issue forth decades . We ’ll see how the law deal the humans who are n’t so friendly to our mechanical neighbors .
[ The Japan Times ]
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