Found this on J-Walk today.. some Korean super-geniuses have unveiled a smart robot that pours drinks, shakes hands and has conversations...and wears bow ties.
"At one of the venues for the APEC forum currently underway in Busan, a bartending robot is poised to make its public debut, taking orders and serving the gathered leaders -- just like a human. It is only one of various walking humanoid helper robots that have been shown around Korea, but this is the first time that such a robot has been able to carry on conversations with customers and fetch the items they request.
The Ministry of Science and Technology’s Intelligent Robot taskforce has created the "T-Rot," which is scheduled to wait on world leaders in a Robot Café at the APEC summit venue. "T-Rot was developed as a service robot for the elderly and disabled,” says taskforce director Kim Mun-sang. "It has the ability to hold conversations with people and fetch items that they want, so we call it a 'thinking robot' or T-Rot.”
Here's the rest of the article...
If anyone needs me, I'll be at the gun store stocking up for the fucking apocalypse.
(Via J-Walk)
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