Live from CeBIT: NEC's PaPeRo robot for home

Apparently, things didn’t go so well with the Health/Food Advice Robot (gasp) so NEC was forced to rebadge the wide-eyed bot as the Partner-type Personal Robot, or PaPeRo. We saw the little guy on display at CeBIT and no doubt, he’s cute with a wide-range of sensors and image/speech processing capabilities. However, was it really necessary for PaPeRo to bust out it's ray gun and vaporize that little girl’s lolli while warbling “warning, gingivitis, warning…” Oh the humanity!

[Rodney @ Feb 17th 2008 11:32AM]

please,if somebody know where to buy a papero please tell me

[Mimi @ Jun 27th 2008 3:06AM]

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. ( :

[Pip @ Mar 13th 2006 1:56PM]

Is that little girl smoking???

[PodMonkeys @ Mar 13th 2006 1:57PM]

People everywhere will be screaming "OMG! Cute!!!" just before being blasted to dust!

[100 ipod movies @ Mar 13th 2006 2:01PM]

Since its "NEC's PaPeRo robot for home"...does that mean it will be a commercial product?

[h2so4 @ Mar 13th 2006 2:15PM]

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.

[takeiteasy @ Mar 13th 2006 3:13PM]

poor kids in germany - start smoking so young, what a pity. heard in other countries you arent even allowed to smoke on the street...

[robot projeleri @ Mar 13th 2006 3:29PM]

the robot is ordinary but the young girl is miserable

[That extra H+ @ Mar 14th 2006 12:53AM]

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?

[Bram Vanderborght @ Mar 14th 2006 3:33AM]

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

[Dan @ Mar 14th 2006 8:24AM]

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.

[easymac30 @ Oct 10th 2007 6:57AM]

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.

[JakeH @ Mar 14th 2006 9:34AM]

Yeah, Dan is right. PaPeRo was modified into the health-bot, not the other way around.

[Ben @ Mar 14th 2006 1:11PM]

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.

[Mike Van Plew @ Mar 14th 2006 2:37PM]

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!

[Chris @ Mar 14th 2006 4:36PM]

That bot looks just like "Rosie" from The Jetsons.

[Neville @ Nov 3rd 2006 9:56PM]

Where can you buy a PaPeRo Robot from