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Receptionist robot challenges limits of impersonal customer service

reception_bot.jpgAttention business owners: Do you find when customers get trapped in the fifth circle of your voicemail hell, they're just not as irate as they used to be? Do you long for a new way to make your company impersonal while simultaneously appealing to raging dorks?

Good news on that front: Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. is now renting out its "wakamaru" robots to work your office front desk for $1,000 a day (for up to five days). The company originally sold the robots (which vaguely resemble giant Legoland escapees) in 2005 for $13,000.

If we trust robots to babysit our kids, surely they can fill in for the receptionist. Who needs a sentient being to greet clients when you can have 3-foot-tall, bright yellow worker bee that zips around at about 0.6 miles per hour, recognizes 10,000 words and speaks basic sentences? Your temp worker probably can't top that.

Via Physorg

 
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imacman:
This is not really a robot, but a primitive droid. Not the same thing....More »


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By imacman at 12:22 PM ON 06/28/07

This is not really a robot, but a primitive droid.

Not the same thing.


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