6月18日下午，日本软银旗下的软银机器人控股公司（简称“SBRH”）在日本东京发布全球首款情感机器人Pepper（意为“胡椒”）。按计划，“胡椒”将自20日开始公开发售，硬件售价为19.8万日元（约合1万人民币）。图为阿里巴巴集团董事局主席马云，日本软件银行集团董事长兼总裁孙正义，富士康科技集团创办人、总裁郭台铭（由左至右）出席发布会。[新华网]
(From L) Jack Ma, or Ma Yun, Chairman of the Board of Alibaba Group, Softbank's president Masayoshi Son, and Terry Gou, founder and chairman of Foxconn, pose for photo with a humanoid robot "Pepper" during the Softbank's press conference in Chiba, near Tokyo, Japan, June 18, 2015. Softbank announced that it will start to sell the emotional robot to the public on June 20 with the price of 198,000 yen (about 1,610 U.S. dollars). (Xinhua/Stringer)