March 19, 2005
Receptionist Robot
Japan based NEDO offers a variety of robots. One of the more remarkable ones is the reception robot ACTROID, who actually looks like a japanese woman. It’s purpose is to sit at a company’s reception desk and give advice to visitors. ACTROID is said to communicate in a natural way in Chinese, Korean, English and Japanese, with realistic looking gestures and facial expressions.
Update: Allthough this company seems to be on the cutting edge with their technology, their PR is horrible. Obviously the link above no longer works (as someone pointed out in the comments), and on their homepage I couldn’t even find any indication they are producing robots at all.
June 2nd, 2005 at 7:19 am
This link has been erased. Do you think you could find the new link …
February 8th, 2006 at 6:28 pm
Actroid Reception Robot try this link…
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4534600418756874841&q=tokyo