Pepper, a $44,000 humanoid robot made by the SoftBank Robotics company, arrived at Stillwater Center last month. The robot is being programmed and is expected to be operational early this spring ...

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They then asked people to set the dinner table with Pepper according to etiquette rules to study how Pepper's self-dialogue skills influence human-robot interactions.

Pepper started asking itself a series of self-directed questions and concluded that the user might be confused. To be sure, Pepper confirmed the user's request, which led to further inner speech.

Scientists in Italy have demonstrated the benefits of a form of robotic inner speech by getting a humanoid robot called Pepper to talk to itself as it solves problems, which also improved its ...