Stefan Mileschin

It is just getting really depressed about it

It seems that replacing a human with a Robots ls has backfired.

Pepper, SoftBank's robot, was tried out for several jobs but failed pretty much specularly at all of them.

Nissei Eco, a plastics manufacturer with a sideline in the funeral business. The company hired child-sized robot Pepper, clothed it in the vestments of Buddhist clergy and programmed it to chant several sutras, or Buddhist scriptures, depending on the sect of the deceased.

But the robot had a nasty happen of breaking down and the company feared that it would break down in the middle of a funeral.

Pepper botched its job at a nursing home and gave baseball fans a creepy feeling, some people are saying the humanoid itself will need a funeral soon.

Part of the problem is that because Pepper is human-shaped they expect it to have the same level of intelligence. While that is not a particularly high bar in some cases, the technology falls short of expectations.

The robotics unit of SoftBank, a Tokyo-based technology investor, said in late June that it halted production of Pepper last year and was planning to restructure its global robotics teams, including a French unit involved in Pepper's development.

https://fudzilla.com/news/iot/53234-...-getting-fired