Robots: utopia vs dystopia

I first met Pepper in 2014, a human-shaped robot at a mobile store of Akihabara district in Tokyo. Although our conversation quickly reached some limits by the fact that he (it?) could only speak Japanese at the time, I sympathized with what his creator Aldebaran (a French company now part of the Softbank Japanese conglomerate) defines as a genuine day-to-day companion, whose number one quality is his ability to perceive emotions and adjust his behavior to your mood based on your voice, face expression and words you use. To-date, 10,000 Pepper robots have been sold mostly to Japanese homes. One third of them are used as an attraction to surprise customers and inform them. Nestlé is planning on equipping more than 1,000 Nescafé sales outlets in Japan.