The world’s first emotional robot: ‚Standing just under four feet tall, and weighing 61 pounds, Pepper is designed to read emotions as well as recognize tones of voice and facial expressions in order to interact with humans. But most of all, „he tries to make you happy,“ Kaname Hayashi, Softbank’s project manager, told CNN last year. With his array of cameras, touch sensors, accelerometer and other sensors in his „endocrine-type multi-layer neural network,“ Pepper has the ability to read your emotions as well as develop his own. He isn’t a work robot, but more of an emotional companion for people.‘