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we hope that a future success story awaits in the next big
technological revolution for social robots.
Acknowledgments
We would like to acknowledge Jérôme Monceaux, Vincent Clerc, Alec Lafourcade, Ludovic Houchu, Julien Serre,
Hayashi Kaname, Akiho Shibata, Hideki Okada, and all
of the staff members of SoftBank Robotics for their great
contributions to the Pepper vision. This work was partially supported by the Romeo2 project (http://www
.projetromeo.com/) and BPIFrance in the framework of
the Structuring Projects of Competitiveness Clusters; by
the European Union's Horizon 2020 project Culture
Aware Robots and Environmental Sensor Systems for
Elderly Support (http://www.caressesrobot.org) under
grant 737858; by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and
Communication of Japan; and by the European Union's
Horizon 2020 project MultiModal Mall Entertainment
Robot (http://www.mummer-project.eu) research and
innovation program under grant 688147.
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Amit Kumar Pandey, Innovation Department, SoftBank
Robotics Europe, Paris, France. E-mail: akpandey@
softbankrobotics.com.
Rodolphe Gelin, Innovation Department, SoftBank Robotics
Europe, Paris, France. E-mail: rgelin@softbankrobotics.com.
http://www.projetromeo.com/ http://www.caressesrobot.org http://www.mummer-project.eu
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