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Project · Active since Oct 2026

Pepper

Our SoftBank humanoid and front-of-house robot, greeting visitors, running our own tablet apps and dancing with Baxter.

Overview

Pepper is usually the first robot new students meet. It runs the welcome at Freshers Fair, shows custom HTML pages on its chest tablet and joined graduation week in a cap and gown.

The documentation covers both Freshers Fair setups, building tablet apps in HTML, a general guide to programming Pepper, and the dance routine with Baxter.

Build log

  1. Web apps on Pepper's tablet Building and testing HTML pages for the tablet on Pepper's chest.
  2. Pepper at Refreshers The standalone Refreshers demo: what it does and how to launch it.
  3. Pepper at Freshers Fair How our interactive Freshers demo for Pepper is built and how to run it.
  4. Pepper developer handbook Where everything lives and how to run our Pepper projects, from Choregraphe to the tablet.
  5. Baxter × Pepper dance: Pepper's side Choregraphe, NAOqi motion and timing behind Pepper's half of the dance.

Photos and video

Pepper photo