Live from CeBIT: NEC's PaPeRo robot for home
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Mar 13th 2006 1:54PM
posted Mar 13th 2006 1:54PM
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please,if somebody know where to buy a papero please tell me
One, no she is not smoking. I am sure they do not allow smoking in CeBIT even more with very important robotics around the place, and if you read carefully you would of noticed that the person typing this mention's the girls lolli pop being sensored by the robot for gingivitis and all those icky things adults don't want their kids having. ( :
Is that little girl smoking???
People everywhere will be screaming "OMG! Cute!!!" just before being blasted to dust!
Since its "NEC's PaPeRo robot for home"...does that mean it will be a commercial product?
But can it fix me a Gin & Tonic when I get home from work? That's the sort of thing I want our new robot slaves to be able to do.
poor kids in germany - start smoking so young, what a pity. heard in other countries you arent even allowed to smoke on the street...
the robot is ordinary but the young girl is miserable
yeah, it's cute as hell, but, um... has anybody else stopped to ask... what does it DO? I'm guessing it's more advanced than a furby, so c'mon NEC... What gives?
A small movie from Papero during the world expo in Aichi: (http://lucy.vub.ac.be/aichi/papero2.MPG) from the website http://lucy.vub.ac.be/diary_aichi1.htm
The PaPeRo pre-dates the healthy food advice bot. I've been following its development for six or seven years now.
I really want a robot that wanders my house aimlessly, whistling to itself, and then comes to tell me that I got an email.
I really want a robot like 343 Guilty Spark, minus the plot to destroy all sentient life in the galaxy.
It would fly around humming to itself, taking care of my place, and be pretty awesome for conversation.
Yeah, Dan is right. PaPeRo was modified into the health-bot, not the other way around.
You know, I didn't even notice the robot. I saw the "lollie" sticking out of that girls mouth and felt I had to comment. That would have been BAD marketing for whoever took the picture.
It doesn't look like it could serve anything! it has no arms!! reminds me of one of those bump 'n' go toy robots, lights and sounds. I'll wait till they come up with a full service robot that can do the chores!
At least ROBOSAPIAN has arms and hands and can FART!
That bot looks just like "Rosie" from The Jetsons.
Where can you buy a PaPeRo Robot from