text: A customer visits the Pepper-Packed Mobile Shop operated by SoftBank Group Corp. in Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday, March 24, 2016. Customers at the store, which will be open from today until March 30, are served entirely by SoftBank's Pepper robots. SoftBank's robotics unit and Microsoft will use Pepper to build a next-generation in-store solution for the retail industry, according to the company. Photographer: Akio Kon/Bloomberg