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epperHealth will also detect a rapidly rising heart rate, check in on how you're feeling, follow up on your sleeping habits and remind you to take your meds - the robot will even call up an Uber for those unable to use a smartphone. It works by detecting abnormal vitals through the Watch such as a rapid heart rate or a fall and then Pepper "wakes up" and comes over to check out what's going on. Should something serious happen, Pepper will alert a built-in emergency system and give medics the elder's location to get them immediate assistance.

"The robot is built using the Pepper companion robot, IBM Watson's artificial intelligence systems for natural language, and Panasonic's in-flight data and displays, along with Here Maps indoor navigational data. It isn't just for in-flight use. The robot can check in passengers at the gate, scan their tickets, and then circulate in a plane or wait at the end of a flight to tell passengers - in their own language - which gate they need to go to for a connecting flight."

Product placements and the advertisements that advertise them (yea, I know).

Cool campaign

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Fabio, Hasselhoff, Dokken, now Lohan - seems like celebrity spokespeople are increasingly ironic/C-list/terrible/jokes Air New Zealand continues its train-wreck celebrity series by inviting Lindsay Lohan to sit on the "skycouch" and be peppered with sexual innuendo by the carrier's lascivious, foul-mouthed spokes-squirrel, Rico.