The group of large retailers Aeon and the Japanese company Tmsuk, Japanese robotics firm, today presented a companion robot designed to monitor, entertain and amuse children in a shopping mall while their parents do their shopping. The mobile robot measuring 1m40 is equipped with a camera as a right eye and a projector in the left eye to disseminate promotional images on walls in the mall. The views collected by the robot through its eye camera are also displayed on screens located in the shopping mall. To interact with the robot, children must obtain before a membership card of the “Club” of the mall where he officiates in the city of Fukuoka. Continue reading →