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Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Pepper (Humanoid Robot) As Hospital Receptionist: Belgium

Robot Receptionists Introduced at Hospitals in Belgium

Pepper the humanoid robot has started work as an assistant on the reception desk in hospitals in Liege and Ostend

Agence France-Presse via www.theguardian.com | June 13, 2016



Two Belgian hospitals have added an innovative staff member to their reception desks: humanoid robots called Pepper.
The robots took up assistant reception duties at hospitals in Ostend and Liege on Monday..
The humanoid assistant, which has a screen on his chest and a round head, is the first robot in the world to be used to greet people in a medical setting, his software creators said.


"Pepper the Humanoid Robot Sells in Less than a Minute on its Release Day" Source: http://www.themonitordaily.com/pepper-the-humanoid-robot-sells-in-less-than-a-minute-on-its-release-day/22905/

<more at https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/14/robot-receptionists-hospitals-belgium-pepper-humanoid; related articles and links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCFYw8mIqcc (Interview with Pepper the robot. Published July 18, 2014) and http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/softbank-pepper-humanoid-robot-us-debut (SoftBank Prepares Humanoid Robot Pepper's U.S. Debut, Releases Android SDK. May 19, 2016)>

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