Pepper the robot addressed MPs on the House of Commons Education Committee about the future of artificial intelligence, so they could gauge for themselves the implications for education. Pepper explained the role robots can play in caring for older people, for example in providing company. The robot did concede that there were humanoid skills that robots were unlikely to develop, so there was a limit to their caring skills... BBC news: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-45879961
Pepper answers pre-prepared questions from MPs: https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/education-committee/news-parliament-2017/fourth-industrial-revolution-pepper-robot-evidence-17-19/
Announcement posted on: 17 October 2018
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