It's a press promotion and media event by PeopleStaff, pure and simple. There is no way that the Hello Kitty robot is capable of doing anything more than just entertaining kids. I chatted with the robot in Tokyo recently, http://www.robots-dreams.com/2005/11/hello_kitty_rob.html and you can see from the video how limited the functionality is.
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It's a press promotion and media event by PeopleStaff, pure and simple. There is no way that the Hello Kitty robot is capable of doing anything more than just entertaining kids. I chatted with the robot in Tokyo recently, http://www.robots-dreams.com/2005/11/hello_kitty_rob.html and you can see from the video how limited the functionality is.