'You guys are foreign': my date with robot that feels emotions

Green-eyed and diminutive, Pepper works the crowd hard as he sings, dances and tries out his small talk. "You guys seem to be foreigners – where are you from?" he asks. When we tell him we're Irish, he says: "Gosh, Europe has so many interesting countries. I'd like to go there some day." Pepper is the latest in a long line of made-in-Japan battery-powered bipeds.