I like real booth babes myself, but this is pretty neat. It is only a matter of time until some fast food chain will start useing these to take the customers orders. It should be an improvement for the most part.
Aichi’s information booth worker Actroid, developed by Japanese firms Kokoro and Advanced Media, looks like a Japanese woman in her 20s and understands 40,000 phrases each in Chinese, English, Japanese and Korean.
The humanoid with realistic eyeballs, eyelashes and moving lips gestures and puts on facial expressions suitable for the more than 2,000 types of answers it can give.
The robot may refuse to answer to sensitive questions for “privacy reasons,” making an X with her arms and bowing.
She also has a sense of irony. When asked if she is a robot, she says, “Y.e.s, I. a.m. a. r.o.b.o.t” in a disconnected voice and moves about clumsily. A moment later, she says “Just kidding” and starts a natural flow of movements.
Robots to offer warm welcome at Japan’s World Expo
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