Kyotaro Nishimura is a mystery writer from Japan with his very own museum, which now -- thanks to
Fujitsu -- has a shiny new guide robot. The droid in question, a friendly helper named Enon, will autonomously move to the entrance of the museum to greet guests, will guide visitors through the exhibits by using gestures (and its chest-embedded LCD screen), and will play video greetings from Mr. Nishimura, amongst other tasks. This iteration of bot (called a "service robot" by Fujitsu) is just the first in a planned long line of human-esque, automatons. The company hopes to introduce security and package transport bots in the future. The future looks bright,
humans.
posted Sep 21st 2007 12:02PM
Am I the only one who can't give less of a crap about all these stories about stupid robots?
Yes
No, you're not the only one. I'm sick of those, too.
Wow! My favorite band now has a team of robots to sing their songs. Wonder what the out of work musician's will do? ask them - www.enon.tv