Ars Technica's Cyrus Farivar visited Beta in San Francisco to meet Pepper, the store's new, friendly, humanoid sales robot. Pepper has been working in stores in Japan and Europe, and Beta is its first North American job.
Read the article: http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/08/pepper-the-4-foot-tall-robot-that-reads-emotions-makes-her-us-debut/