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Pepper couldn’t do gymnastics

Pepper delivers information to passengers of the French railway company SNCF on March 2, 2016 at the Nort-sur-Erdre train station, one of three stations Pepper appeared in the Pays de la Loire region of France.
Pepper delivers information to passengers of the French railway company SNCF on March 2, 2016 at the Nort-sur-Erdre train station, one of three stations Pepper appeared in the Pays de la Loire region of France. Photo: Loic Venance/AFP (Getty Images)

Unlike some of the more agile robots in existence, like the Atlas robot from Boston Dynamic, Pepper couldn’t jump over obstacles or do backflips.

Pepper was more or less a desktop computer on wheels that could tell a joke. And while that could probably describe most robots of the past century, we really expected them to be doing much more useful tasks by now. We are living in the future, after all, even if it doesn’t always feel like it.

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