{"id":4778,"date":"2015-06-19T20:05:55","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T12:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/?p=4778"},"modified":"2015-06-19T20:44:31","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T12:44:31","slug":"pepper-the-robot-goes-on-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/2015\/pepper-the-robot-goes-on-sale.html","title":{"rendered":"Pepper the Robot Goes on Sale in Japan this Weekend!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pepper goes on sale in Japan this coming weekend, but in advance of that launch SoftBank has revealed that Alibaba and manufacturer Foxconn have invested $118 million each in its robotics division.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/pepper.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-4780 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/pepper.jpg\" alt=\"pepper\" width=\"451\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/pepper.jpg 738w, https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/pepper-300x148.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pepper, which is manufactured by Foxconn, is initially a household robot. SoftBank has made 1,000 models available for early adopting consumers who want to be the first to plonk down 198,000 JPY (approximately $1,600) to put the humanoid in their home. Customers are, however, subject to monthly service fees of up to 24,600 JPY ($200) over the course of a three-year contract.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O6Yk7uku6_Q\" width=\"499\" height=\"426\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pepper goes on sale in Japan this coming weekend, but in advance of that launch SoftBank has revealed that Alibaba<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2022,2113,2112],"class_list":["post-4778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-web","tag-hotnews","tag-pepper-japan","tag-pepper-the-robot"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4781,"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4778\/revisions\/4781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}