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）。[新华网]
A humanoid robot "Pepper" is demonstrated 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)