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Robotic friend with a touchscreen display

Guests interact with Pepper the robot during the 2017 New Yorker TechFest at Cedar Lake on October 6, 2017 in New York City.
Guests interact with Pepper the robot during the 2017 New Yorker TechFest at Cedar Lake on October 6, 2017 in New York City. Photo: Brian Ach/Getty Images for The New Yorker (Getty Images)

While many humanoid robots of the past focused on a machine’s ability to pick things up, Pepper really only needed arms for gesturing. The touchscreen display delivered more information and was a useful input device, but it lacked the novelty of a robot butler handing you a drink, as just one example.

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