Pepper the humanoid robot seems to reach for the ceremonial ribbon during the opening ceremony of the Pepper Phone Shop in Tokyo, March 24, 2016.[Photo/VCG]
SoftBank Japan opens a phone store staffed entirely by robots in the upmarket Omotesando shopping area, Tokyo, Japan on March 24, 2016. A team of 10 humanoid Pepper robots run the Pepper Phone Shop, serving customers buying SoftBank mobile phones. The store is a world first, exclusively staffed by robots, and will be open until March 30.