Mobile phone store with an entire staff of just Pepper robots

Pepper, the Japanese humanoid robot's resume already includes helping out in financial institutions, car companies, food and beverage firms - and now it can add cell phone retail. Softbank announced its plans to open a pop-up mobile phone shop that is entirely staffed with the four foot-tall robots. Since these humanoids have the ability to read emotions and formulate accurate responses, the firm believes it will prove to be a successful selling machine. Softbank announced its plans to open a pop-up mobile phone shop that is entirely staffed with the four foot-tall robots. 'I don't know how this will turn out, but it should be a quite interesting experiment,' said SoftBank director Ken Miyauchi during a two-day exhibition called Pepper World.