Japan: Robots When You Need Them
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Thursday, 13 of November , 2008 at 1:27 am
This isn’t news, per say, but I was just struck by this little blurb from Robots-Dreams, a robotics blog based in Japan:
The Aqua City shopping complex in Tokyo’s Odaiba district has to be one of the most confusing and poorly laid out buildings we’ve ever encountered, so it would seem to be a natural fit for an ‘information’ robot to give directions, point customers to the appropriate shops, and provide general security. Sure enough, we found this robot on the 3rd floor…
Maybe Lem is being facetious, I really wish I lived in a society where if I got lost somewhere, my first thought would be to go find the nearest assistance robot, and then hey presto, there’d actually be one there. Oh Japan, why must you be so much more awesome and robot-y than everywhere else? Sigh.
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