NEC displayed their voice-activated telepresence robot PaPeRo-mini at IREX 2009.

NEC is opening the lid on their communication robot PaPeRo with a new 3-year lease program open to corporations and researchers.

Nissan and NEC are co-developing a robotic agent that sits in the dashboard of your car, and acts as a navigator. It also watches your face for signs of stress or tiredness.

NEC continues to improve their speech synthesis software using their communication robot PaPeRo.

The successor to NEC’s R100 robot, PaPeRo (Partner-type Personal Robot) is a communication robot that moves around on wheels and understands a large vocabulary of words.