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SoftBank Corp’s human-like robot Pepper will be rolled out in Taiwan later this year with about 100 rented units making their appearance in some banks and Carrefour SA shops, executives handling Pepper’s sales in the island said on Monday.
Taiwan is set to become one of the first markets outside of Japan to launch Pepper, a key plank in SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son’s vision of future technology centred on Internet of Things, a network of devices, vehicles and building sensors that collect and exchange data.
The island is also home of the robot’s contract maker Foxconn, formally known as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. However, Pepper won’t be available for sale or to consumers yet in Taiwan, which like many other markets, has yet to widely adopt human-like robots as part of a regular lifestyle.
The goal is to rent out 60 robots a month by sometime in the first half of 2017, Foxconn Executive Director Lu Fang-ming told reporters at a briefing.
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