The Fujitsu enon goes on sale in Japan today

Those Fujitsu vocation-bots we told you about are on sale today in Japan and anxious to begin servicing us humans. No, you know exactly what we meant by that—they are designed to provide guidance, escort guests, move objects about, and protect us mere mortals by patrolling our corridors. That is, until they start replicating! Dubbed
"enon," (do they have Disposable Parts?) these robots feature autonomous navigation made possible by pre-programmed maps and wide-angle cameras for sensing objects; the ability to transport objects of up to 10-kilograms in an internal storage compartment ala Bender, or up to 0.5-kilos with a single arm; communication via speech recognition and synthesis (in Japanese) and a touch panel LCD mounted on its chest; wireless LAN connectivity allowing us to see what enon sees and to provide remote commands; and an array of LEDs on the eye and mouth area providing a wide range of expressions on that swiveling head. Unfortunately, customers who purchase now will have to wait two agonizing months for their spankin' new servants of steel 'cause they won't start shipping until November.