Personal Robot PaPeRo

In January 1997, we at NEC commenced the 'Personal Robot Project' to seek out the possibilities of developing personal robots for use in the home. After much research and development, we produced our first generation prototype, 'Personal Robot R100' in July 1999. R100 with its ability to recognize people, understand voice commands and communicate with its users gathered much public attention as R100 showed many new possibilities in many aspects of our lives.

But we didn't stop with R100; we pursued in our research focusing on the interaction between human and robots and completed the next generation prototype, 'Personal Robot PaPeRo' in January 2001.


The name 'PaPeRo' is taken from 'Partner type Personal Robot'.
We plan to conduct further research and development based on NEC's new robot 'PaPeRo'.[...]