Yaretzi Bernal, six, gets a hug from “Pepper,” the emotional robot on display during the finals of the DARPA Robotics Challenge at the Fairplex complex in Pomona, California, on June 5, 2015. The competition had twenty-four teams vying to develop robots capable of assisting humans in responding to natural and man-made disasters.
What aspects of Pepper’s design would make the robot effective in responding to natural and man-made disasters?

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