A Robot Called Pepper Can Teach Visitors Swahili at the Smithsonian
" Hakuna matata " may very well be the only Swahili idiomatic expression that many people outside of East Africa have ever heard ( thanks , Lion King ) , but a 4 - foundation - marvellous humanoid automaton named Pepper is go to exchange that . The National Museum of African Artin Washington , D.C.—part of the Smithsonian Institution ’s connection — is using Pepper to explain the meaning of Swahili discussion and musical phrase that come along in its artworks ....