Then Toyota Kaikan Exhibition Hall in Japan is the place to be on August 27th. A robot named TPR-Robina will be seen giving directions to visitors and if someone liked Robina’s guidance, he may want her to sign an autograph from her as well. Isn’t that cool!
Humans are developing robots for an easier life – but are we heading for a mechanical age, are we inapt to execute our own obligations that we are falling to robots? Perhaps yes, but robots have become a prerequisite in disguise. Standing just less than four feet tall and weighing around 130 pounds, it reminds us of a small girl with hefty legs locked up in a container. TPR-Robina has systems built in to guide it around obstacles. Robina will not only be guiding the visitors, also she will remember them as a good host, as it can even scan the nametags of visitors to personalize its service.
With that we can derive from the ongoing efforts to develop robots, soon we’ll see more robots as gatekeepers outside stores and buildings and why not! It is we who are creating and motivating them, and I won’t be shocked in the years to come if we face competition not from any external power (read aliens) but from someone that we ourselves have created.
[Scifi]