News & Events
News & Events
May 2019 – Vivatech 2019, SPARK evolution and partnerships
SPARK works now on 4 different robots
For the fourth year in a row, we were at Vivatech in Paris, one of the largest tech event in Europe. Vivatech was the perfect occasion to showcase the latest version of SPARK, our smart solution for robots, which now works on 4 different robots (Pepper, Cruzr, Buddy and Alpha-Mini). By presenting various retail, service and hotel use cases, we showed how useful and effective robots they are in any kind of business.
Botaldo : A Partnerhsip with DYDU and l’Equipe
For the first time, we showcased Botaldo, the soccer expert chatbot from the sports media l’Equipe. By using the DYDU chatbot platform and thanks to our SPARK solution, we have integrated Botaldo into robots, allowing to ask the robots any questions about the French soccer league. Botaldo will soon be available on other platforms.
January 2019 – Meetup Voice/AI – SPARK solution presented by Pepper
The use of voice AI technology is rising!
We were at the Voice / AI meetup organised by 1Kubator to talk about how we use the voice and AI technology in robotics, we took the opportunity to showcase SPARK, our latest smart solution for robots.
Key points
- Social robots like Pepper or Cruzr are great interfaces between physical and digital world
- SPARK integrates the most performing chatbots & voicebots and the best knowledge technologies to provide smart, useful and efficient interaction with social robots.
Here is everything you need to know about the SPARK Solution
October 2018 – Knowledge technologies integrated in SPARK
What if you could ask any questions to robots?
Using the most performing knowledge technologies from the Web in our SPARK solution, people are now able to ask any questions to robots.
Better than a smart speaker?
The robot answers questions and goes beyond by proposing to follow the conversation based on the context and uses its tablet to display useful information! The speech, the tablet display and the body language are fully adapted, providing a natural way to communicate with Pepper.
Pepper answers any questions
Episode 1: General Knowledge
Pepper answers any questions
Episode 2: Science
June 2017 – IR & SBR America partnership announcement
Softbank Robotics America has acquired Pepper4Services
Softbank Robotics America is now the official owner of Pepper4Services, the CMS dedicated to Pepper robots.
New business tool for US market : Promoter
In partnership with SBRA, we’re designing a new business solution for Pepper enabling to attract, engage, convert and reward the customers. More info on Softbank Robotics America website.
May 2017 – Vivatech Paris
The world’s ‘rendez-vous’ for startups & leaders
For this second edition, 6 Pepper robots welcomed visitors at the main entrance. Using our P4S applications, Pepper’s job was to give information about the main conferences, help people to find their direction and entertain them with interactive games.
In addition to the Pepper partners village organized by Softbank Robotics, we were also at Carrefour Lab where Pepper made the promotion of smart devices.
Best moment so far was the handshake between Pepper and French President Emmanuel Macron.
We will be at the next Vivatech edition end of May, click here for more info.
April 2017 – Pepper World Paris
The official Pepper Partners event
Finally an event fully dedicated to Pepper in France! Organized by Softbank Robotics Europe, we showed our P4S solution and its new features, enabling to deploy Pepper even more rapidly in any kind of business!
IR Founder Franck Calzada talks about P4S
January 2017 – Pepper @ Westfield
Pepper is greeting Westfield mall shoppers in San Francisco
Recently deployed in two Westfield shopping malls, Pepper’s main mission is to assist concierge services, drive foot, entertain shoppers with games and dances and gather valuable customer data.
To create apps, the company is using our Pepper4Services CMS, enabling to easily build and manage the robot’s behavior (speech – tablet display – gesture).
Few insights from SBRA:
- 95% customer satisfaction
- 10K+ customers directed to stores
- 100+ surveys run each week
Full case study from Softbank Robotics US here.