Pepper the robot offers new payment experience


KUALA LUMPUR: Most of us know Pepper as a spice or Iron Man's girlfriend, but visitors at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre got to meet a different kind of Pepper.

The 1.2m-tall robot, created by SoftBank Robotics, was brought by MasterCard to the two-day Global Entrepre­neurship Com­munity (GEC) 2016 exhibition to promote the Master­Card-Cyberjaya cashless society initiative.

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