Robot Enrolled in High School in Japan - Breitbart

In a collaboration between Japan's Softbank Robotics and French-based Aldebaran Robotics, Pepper was officially put on the market for domestic use in June of 2015. Priced at about 1,600 with 200 in monthly data and insurance fees, the first thousand models available for launch sold out in under a minute. The company has stated that they aim to keep Pepper affordable, comparing the cost of the robot to that of a pet dog in Japan. Outside of personal ownership, the android has been used to assist Japanese citizens in banks and shops, including the promotion of Nescafe coffee machine sales. And in a limited run, large-scale experiment, Softbank opened a phone shop staffed exclusively by Pepper robots.