The physical safety risks

The countermeasures

1) Pepper falls and older adults get involved

Widening the installation area with the ground.

Widening the space between the wheels.

2) Older adults getting caught in Pepper’s joints

Installing pressure sensors on the surface of Pepper’s body.

3) Pepper becoming uncontrollable

· Pepper’s hands and fingers move at high speed, hit to human eyes at high speed.

· Pepper’s arms collide with an older adult at high speed.

· Older adult caught between Pepper’s arms and joints.

· Pepper’s fingers ram into people’s eyes.

Equipping speed-based and contact force-based mechanical safety devices.

Wearing goggles.

4) Pepper’s battery dies on a slope

· When the battery of Pepper runs out on the slope, it descends at a high speed due to gravity and collides with people at a high speed.

Speed-based mechanical safety device for the wheels.