Softbank Pepper Robot Opens Up to Android

Japanese Softbank announced that the humanoid Pepper robot will support Google's Android operating system. The Android Pepper robots will go on sale starting in July for developers. Ahead of the launch, starting today SoftBank Robotics is offering a beta version of'Pepper SDK for Android Studio', a software development kit that enables the development of RoboApps on the Android platform. By making Pepper compatible with Android, Android application developers will be able to utilize their existing knowledge and technologies to develop RoboApps for Pepper. With the high number of Android developers around the world, the possibilities for Pepper RoboApp developers will greatly increase with Android support.