TMSUK's "service robot" carries your bags while you shop

Remember the robot that gassed Junichiro Koizumi-san, the Japanese PM? Well, now the company that made it, TMSUK, wants to give you a hand shopping with their new prototype RFID-enabled shopping assistant robot. Basically it's just a machine that follows you around and pitches in by carrying your heavy bags around as you cruise the Fukuoka airport mall in Japan. How long until we can get a mod so that if you're a dude, it'll help you remember that plaid AND stripes = 0, stripes AND dots = 1?

[Via RFID in Japan, picturephoning]

[SOAD @ Dec 19th 2005 1:07AM]

so ur gonna pay $1000+ on a robot who JUST carries ur bags 4 u?

yea, that's money well spent....I'd rather buy all the xbox 360 games i could with that money

[Shin @ Dec 19th 2005 1:07AM]

Gameaddict mentality ^

[Namrepus221 @ Dec 19th 2005 1:07AM]

These things are already out in the world.

They are called "Husbands"

[knot_U @ Dec 19th 2005 1:07AM]

ooooooh, ohhhhhhhhh

just like in "The Jetsons"

:P

[Computer Tech Support @ Dec 19th 2005 1:07AM]

From the sounda of it, SOAD, it will be a publically available thing (or possibly a rentable thing) within that shopping center.

[macxprt @ Dec 19th 2005 1:07AM]

We've already had these for years....

It's called a shopping cart.

Talk about putting the cart before the horse. :-)

[Shozo @ Dec 19th 2005 1:07AM]

We've already had these for years....

It's called a husband

(if you�re a dudette)

[Google Nazi @ Dec 19th 2005 1:07AM]

"Posted Oct 10, 2005, 7:13 AM ET by SOAD

so ur gonna pay $1000+ on a robot who JUST carries ur bags 4 u?

yea, that's money well spent....I'd rather buy all the xbox 360 games i could with that money"

So your saying $1000 is not a good buy for a robot that has potential to have software upgrades and hacking uses? You do realize how much more potential this robot has right? Plus why buy all the xbox360 games? Most of them are crap looking anyway. Just get a ps3 or revolution at least then you know you won't buy games for a destined to be dead console :D

As for #6... I'm not a dudette therefor a husband wouldn't do any good lol. Think about the target audience instead of the usual lazy americans... Think old people, people with arthiritus, people with back problems, handicap people etc... For the avergage consumer this thing would make them even more fat and for people like me willing to explore its internal soul.. well.. let's just say missle launchers pls!

[SOAD @ Dec 19th 2005 1:07AM]

oooookkkk...it sounded like u could buy the robot...but yea, the shopping cart does a good job for me.