help dependent people with a certain degree of disability. In this chapter, the authors make
use of the well-known Pepper social robot to carry out such task. They provide an integrated
solution using ROS to recognize and grasp simple objects. That system was deployed on an
accelerator platform (Jetson TX1) to be able to perform object recognition in real time using
RGB-D sensors attached to the robot. By using the system, the authors prove that the Pepper …