Sota Home Robot to Care for Japan’s Elderly
From: Robotics Trends - 07/31/2015

NTT, Japan’s largest telecommunications company, has created the Sota robot
that interacts with other smart objects in the home. NTT plans to first
unleash Sota at elderly care facilities by March 2016. The obvious move after
that would be to get Sota in homes to further rival Aldebaran’s Pepper robot.

Read the entire article and view a video (mostly in Japanese 3:19) at:
http://www.roboticstrends.com/article/sota_home_robot_to_care_for_japans_elderly

Links:
NTT to offer home aid service featuring talking robot
http://asia.nikkei.com/Tech-Science/Tech/NTT-to-offer-home-aid-service-featuring-talking-robot

Japan's NTT to put home care robot's in the homes of the elderly
http://mashable.com/2015/07/29/japan-home-care-robot/

Household Robot Buddy Looks for $100k via Crowdfunding
http://www.roboticstrends.com/article/household_robot_buddy_looks_for_100k_via_crowdfunding/personal

Jibo, Jimmy, Pepper: Will 2015 Be the Year of Personal Robots?
http://www.roboticstrends.com/article/jibo_jimmy_pepper_will_2015_be_the_year_of_personal_robots/personal