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SoftBank's Pepper robot may still be the better-known contender, but a new humanoid device from Hitachi aims to be the in-store sales rep of the future.
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Armed with Watson smarts, Pepper aspires to be a robot salesman
Japanese robot Pepper is getting an intelligence upgrade via IBM's Watson, but that doesn't make interacting with the real world any less challenging.
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1000 Pepper robots sell out in a minute on launch day
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