Emirates NBD's Pepper has currently learnt to speak Arabic! The artificial intelligence (AI) powered humanoid robotic, gave the UAE by Emirates NBD in 2015, has been commonly prominent due to his novel proposal and captivating character, and will certainly currently also accommodate the bank's Arabic-speaking customers.

Including a fun element to the banking experience, the multilingual Pepper will certainly remain to communicate with customers at the bank's Jumeirah Emirates Towers and Dubai Mall branches and provide assistance with issuing branch queueing tokens, providing info concerning services and products in an appealing manner and obtaining client responses with a happiness meter.

"Pepper has actually been extremely popular with customers and well gotten at our branches and advertising events," said Suvo Sarkar, Senior Executive Vice President & Group Head - Retail Banking & Wealth Management, Emirates NBD. "As a bank that has been at the leading edge of digitisation and in bringing innovations to the region, we delight in to supply our customers the opportunity to engage with Pepper in the language of their selection. Pepper brings in a modern and contemporary element to banking, enhancing our multi-channel yet personal banking proposition."

Pepper made his first appearance in 2016 at Emirates NBD's futuristic banking area in the Jumeirah Emirates Towers branch. The bank additionally recently introduced a scheduled financial investment of AED 1 billion over the following 3 years to execute a digital transformation program.

Seen here aware is Pepper interacting with customers and team at an occasion held at the bank's main branch in Abu Dhabi.