SoftBank Robotics America Announces Luxoft as Premier Development Partner for Pepper, the Humanoid Robot
April 17 2018 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Luxoft and SoftBank Robotics America create new
solution for businesses in North America by improving the end user
experience with robotics
SoftBank Robotics America, Inc. (“SBRA”), the North American arm
of SoftBank Robotics Group, and Luxoft Holding Inc. (NYSE:LXFT), a
global IT service provider, partnered to build a flexible
chat-based platform for Pepper®, the humanoid robot. The
collaboration will result in a hybrid local and cloud
infrastructure that creates more engaging end-user experiences by
enabling developers to connect their existing chat applications to
the robot’s conversational platform. The partnership aims to make
robotics technology more accessible to businesses in North
America.
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“Conversational Pepper is about making consumer-facing robots
more accessible to the broader market,” said Sam Mantle, Managing
Director of Digital Enterprise at Luxoft. “There is a lot of
fantastic innovation in the artificial intelligence space, which
almost exclusively materialize in voice assistants. This
collaboration is a direct initiative to bring those two worlds
together in a way that will advance customer interactions in
financial services, retail, and hospitality.”
“Our partnership with Luxoft will allow us to quickly advance
Pepper’s capabilities and address critical challenges we faced with
Pepper over the last two years,” said Steve Carlin, Chief Strategy
Officer, SBRA. “Luxoft’s innovative solution reduces the time
required to adapt conversations onto Pepper from months to just a
few days. We will continue to evolve Pepper’s platform this year
and bring on new partners who will take full advantage of the
infrastructure Luxoft created to build new solutions for our
customers. ”
The new technical infrastructure comes preloaded on Pepper and
is now available to all businesses in North America. The solution
makes it easier for SBRA clients to bring their cloud-based
marketing stacks closer to customers while dramatically reducing
engineering costs of working with robots. This ease of use allows
companies who lack the resources to build robotic applications to
implement Pepper in the workplace and ultimately enhance their
bottom line by improving end user experiences in a physical
location.
The Luxoft infrastructure will be a key driver in fulling
updates to Pepper by:
- Allowing for the creation of compelling
Pepper conversations using standard cloud services
- Alleviating latency issues due to Wi-Fi
constraints and other environmental considerations
- Streamlining and reducing processing
time so conversations between Pepper and user are faster, creating
a more natural conversation experience
- Lowering total cost of ownership by
allowing for third-party application plugins to create dynamic
conversational campaigns for Pepper
- Pre-built greeter module and web CMS
for SMB usages that welcomes visitors to a business, informs
employees of their arrival and answers guest questions.
SoftBank Robotics America selected Luxoft to build a flexible
infrastructure for Pepper because of its combined delivery and
engineering expertise across AI, Internet of Things, and
Human-Centered Design; all critical competencies in robotic
application development.
About SoftBank Robotics America,
Inc.
Headquartered in San Francisco, California, SoftBank Robotics
America, Inc. is driving technology forward by becoming a leader in
humanoid robotics. Our robots, Pepper and NAO® are used in
more than 70 countries worldwide to assist, empower, and benefit
people in the fields of research, education, retail, healthcare,
banking, hospitality, and entertainment. Unified under the SoftBank
brand in 2016, SoftBank Robotics has offices in Paris, Tokyo, San
Francisco, and Shanghai. Together, our team of over 500 employees
is working hard to define the future of technology, ushering in a
new era of robotics designed to advance the human experience.
About Luxoft
Luxoft (NYSE:LXFT) is a global IT service provider of innovative
technology solutions that delivers measurable business outcomes to
multinational companies. Its offerings encompass strategic
consulting, custom software development services, and digital
solution engineering. Luxoft enables companies to compete by
leveraging its multi-industry expertise in the financial services,
automotive, communications, and healthcare & life sciences
sectors. Its managed delivery model is underpinned by a
highly-educated workforce, allowing the Company to continuously
innovate upwards on the technology stack to meet evolving digital
challenges.
Luxoft has more than 13,100 employees across 41 cities in 20
countries within five continents, with its operating headquarters
office in Zug, Switzerland. For more information, please visit
the website.
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