October 8, 2005

RFID Shopping Assistant Robot

tok10609130605.vsmall-1.jpg TMSUK (the company that developed Roboria and the one that fogged the prime minister), and NTT Communications announced that they will introduce a service robot that follows shoppers and help them navigate in a shopping mall and their carry heavy bags. RFID technology is used to make this robot inexpensive.

The pilot test will take place in February 2006, at a shopping mall called Diamond Citicle near Fukuoka International Airport."

reBlogged from wonderful RFID in Japan

The above robot is not the service robot mentioned in this article (I couldn't find a picture), but Fujitsu's robot helper, written up in MSNBC.

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