Starting this weekend in Japan, people can buy a talking, person-shaped robot that reads your body language and gets sad when you turn off the lights. You may remember Pepper, the four-foot-tall, 60-pound, talking, dancing, joke-telling robot that guesses users' moods and keeps them company.
Pepper, whose software is open source, can be outfitted with over 200 apps that can teach English to kids or keep photo journals. SoftBank, the Japanese cellular megacorp that's selling Pepper, says it's the world's first robot able to intuit human emotions by sensing changes in voice and other things like facial expressions.
It'll sell for 198,000 yen, or about $1,600. What's more, Pepper has its own emotions, a feature that's been added since the robot was initially announced last year. In Tamagotchi fashion, Pepper gets lonely if you ignore it, and laughs if you tell it a joke.
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