Watch | Robots that can emote, speak and respond

A Japanese company has launched a humanoid robot called Pepper. It is the world's first personal communication robot that can read emotions, with the ability to analyse people's expressions and voice tones and is designed to live with humans. Another robotics company in Japan has designed Actroid, a robot that has silicone skin and is just like humans. It has a speech recognition software that can talk, make eye contact, comprehend and accordingly respond to different tones and body language.