With its commercial launch for developers set for Friday, creators on Sunday competed in the first app contest for SoftBank's humanoid robot Pepper with a variety of applications, ranging from ones offering games, asking quizzes and even monitoring and helping dementia patients in their everyday lives.
Pepper, developed by telecom operator SoftBank, is a 121-cm-tall robot equipped with artificial intelligence and connectivity to the Internet. It can recognize human voices and carry on simple conversations with humans, and it can read body language and facial expressions with its video camera eyes.
The Project Team Dementia was named winner among about 100 applicants in the application software contest, which was held in Tokyo.
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