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	Pepper Tour in Spanish Carrefour stores A tour to present Pepper is underway in 36 Carrefour stores, in 17 provinces of Spain. This initiative is part of the company's innovation strategy based on the use of new technologies for entertaining and educational purposes, in order to improve the shopping experience. "Pepper is a way to convey an image of modernity", says Anna Maria Gil, Innovation Product Manager at Carrefour Spain.


		Success for Pepper World Paris 2017 Pepper World Paris 2017 took place on April 20th for the first autonomous edition. The event focused on business solutions in various fields such as retail, hospitality, healthcare and education showcased by 24 of our partners. More than 600 visitors discovered our robots' capabilities especially through 3 clients testimonials conferences: Carrefour Spain, AXA Bank and Renault. Watch the overview video here.


	Pepper at AXA Bank As part of its innovation strategy, AXA Bank deployed Pepper in 5 French agencies, bringing a new way to interact with customers. The robot aims to welcome customers, provide information about the agency, promote AXA financial products tailored to their needs and entertain them with interactive games. The company is using Pepper4Services, a web CMS designed by our partner Intuitive Robots, enabling to easily create and manage robot's contents and behaviors.


		[TV] Hospital experimentation with Pepper The TV program *Allo Docteurs* interested in a hospital experimentation with Pepper. Maria, Amadou and John, three disabled patients have lived for one week with Pepper in their room. The robot reminded them of diverse medical appointments, gave them the weather, the lunch menu and even played music. (Re)discover here the documentary "Bien vieillir grâce aux nouvelles technologies" which was broadcast on 1st of June.


	Law & the robots Robots and artificial intelligence make a lot of talk about jobs, services and taxation. But what is the point of view of the law and what is their status? French newspaper, *L'Humanité, interviewed Rodolphe Gelin*, EVP Chief Scientific Officer. For him and the Legal Director Olivier Guilhem, the robot remains an object under the responsibility and is at the service of people.


	Presidential handshake Pepper met with French President, Emmanuel Macron, at Viva Technology on June 15th. 5,000 start-ups came to showcase their innovations. Robotics was one of the main themes of this second edition.

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