The use of voice AI technology is rising!

We were at the Voice / AI meetup organised by 1Kubator (thanks to them!) to talk about how we use voice and AI technology in robotics, showcasing SPARK, our smart solution for robots.

Big first for Pepper the robot who answered all questions about SPARK, thanks to SPARK!

Key points

• Social robots like Pepper are a great interface between physical and digital world
• We use the best of AI (Most performing chatbots & voicebots and the best knowledge technologies) to provide smart, useful and efficient interaction with social robots.
• Nothing would be possible without passionate and talented people working hard to make robots smarter everyday!

Everything you need to know about the SPARK Solution

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

New product announcement

We just released SPARK, an Android-based solution which integrates the most performing AI chatbots and the best Knowledge technologies, enabling to get a smart, useful and effective interaction with robots.

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.

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

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.

Pepper at Westfield shopping mall – Highlights