Use case

Reception and visitor experience

Greeting, wayfinding and branded interaction

Reception robots are a communications purchase as much as an automation one. Interaction design, uptime and a clean human handover define whether they are kept after year one.

Platforms evaluated for this workflow

Aldebaran

NAO V6

A small humanoid used in classrooms, therapy programmes and human-robot interaction research, with a stable long-lived SDK.

From $13,000

Aldebaran

Pepper

A wheeled interaction robot for reception, retail and guidance, with a chest tablet used for most transactional flows.

From $22,000