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More Japanese Robot Action

On: August 29th, 2005 at 7:51 pm | Number of Comments » 0

Coming to a local Family Mart near you! Well, maybe not literally available at a Family Mart — my favorite Japanese konbini (convenience store) — but going on sale September 16 by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to Tokyoites is “Wakamaru” (Young Circle? Circlette?), a functional child-sized “Homeuser robot” that (who?) can recognize 10 individual faces and [...]