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2015.11.12 We Developed The First Pepper Electric Movable bookshelf Service in The Industry with Bunshodo Corporation

We Developed The First Pepper Electric Movable bookshelf Service in The Industry with Bunshodo Corporation

Headwaters Co., Ltd. (Head office: Shinjyuku-ku, Tokyo, Representative: Yousuke Shinoda) has been supporting planning and developing app business for Pepper, the personal robot that can read emotions by SoftBank Robotics Corp.

This time, with Bunshodo Corporation (Head office: Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Representative: Yoshinori Sato, president and CEO), we co-developed a service which "BSD elecon pack series" and Pepper are connected.
We exhibited at the Library Fair and Forum 17th(November 10th(Wed) to 12th(Tue) 2015, Pacifico Yokohama).

Bunshodo Corporation has history of 100 years from the establishment, and manufacture and sells movable bookshelf "BSD elecon pack series". The years of manufacture and sells are running 50 years, the longest sells in the industry and 30000 domestic supply record is No.1 in the industry.
We newly use personal robot Pepper for electric movable bookshelf, suggesting new concept that machine (Pepper) controls machine (electric movable bookshelf)

This is a function that picking up books by searching via Pepper's tablet monitor or his voice sounds, furthermore, by Pepper would read QR codes, the electric a bookshelf which the book is in it would start to move. We provide brand new user experiences that electric movable bookshelves haven't never before by putting Pepper as a user interface since he adequate for communication.

This trying was a suggestion of an entrance for communication between hard machines without personality by using Pepper as a entrance of IoT.


■Bunshodo Corporation company overview
Established： August 1, 1912
Representative： Yoshinori Sato, president and CEO
Head office： 3-4-12 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
Capital： 516.3 million yen
Business areas：
Computer system development, operation and maintenance services,
business machinery and office equipment sales,
office supply sales, office and store design and construction,
storage and search equipment manufacture and sales,
drawing and document creation and other data processing,
imports, real estate
Bunshodo's web site is here

■■Inquiry for this case
Headwaters Co., Ltd.　Human and Robot Department　Shiozawa
mail: info_robot@ml.headwaters.co.jp