Robot welcomes shoppers at high-tech store in Palo Alto

A start-up consumer electronics retailer has deployed a friendly-looking, white plastic robot named Pepper to greet shoppers.



In a two-week test, high-tech retailer B8ta is the first retail store in the United States to deploy the humanoid robot, which is from Japan’s SoftBank Robotics, Mercurynews.com reported.



To date, SoftBank has more than 10,000 of the robots in Japan, where it is being used in retail stores, banks, and even consumers' homes. SoftBank plans to test Pepper at other U.S., stores before rolling it out for sale here later this year, the report said.



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