"Pepper" robots installed at housing showroom

"Pepper" humanoid robots are on show at a Yamada Wood House Co. housing showroom in Osaka, western Japan, on July 24, 2015. Softbank Group Corp., which sells the robots, hopes visitors will get a feel of what it would be like living with a robot. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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