Meet Smithsonian's new robot docent

Why bother with a human docent when a robot could give you a guided tour? Last week, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, revealed its new employee -- an interactive robot named Pepper. The 4-foot-tall humanoid robot was created by Softbank, which donated 30 robots to the museum last year. This friendly Pepper robot wants to show you around the Smithsonian museum. "By interacting with museum visitors and providing insight on different exhibits, Pepper will help guide their educational experience through the Smithsonian that they otherwise might have missed out on," Steve Carlin, chief strategy officer of Softbank Robotics, said in a statement.