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A Gallery of Unusual Chinese Robots

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the they'll-eat-your-medicine dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "Chinese engineers have unveiled a series of robots lately — without releasing lots of technical details about them. In the past two months, I've gathered pictures of robots which can act as waiters in restaurants in Hong Kong or pull rickshaws near Beijing. I've also found a four-finger robotic hand able to play organ, a female robot greeting tourists visiting the Sichuan Science Museum with 'ni hao' ('How are you?' in Mandarin — if my sources are correct), and even a robotic chimpanzee."

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  1. How are you? by CrazyJim1 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I asks how you're doing, but doesn't care.

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  2. Pointless by PavementPizza · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There are 1.3 billion Chinese; what do they need robots for? Just round up some dissidents.

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