New Robot Can Help You Find Your Way

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday January 25, 2008 @10:11AM from the ceiling-bot-watches-you-navigate dept.

BoingBoing is reporting that a new robotic assistant may soon be able to help you find your way the next time you are lost in a mall or a supermarket. The latest demonstration from the Osaka-based Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute (ATR) showcased "Robovie", a semi-humanoid robot designed to monitor up to 20 people at a time and classify each person's behavior into one of 10 categories (waiting, wandering, walking fast, etc). Whenever it was able to classify someone as disoriented it would approach them and ask "are you lost", if the answer was yes it provided directions, otherwise it just recommended nearby shops and restaurants.

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Perfect loss control system by lotho+brandybuck · 2008-01-25 10:23 · Score: 5, Funny

Damn lameness filter. Please read in all caps.

What are you doing?
ARE you shop lifting??
you are SHOPLIFTING
shoplifter... shoplifter
exterminate!
exterminate!
ex - term - i - nate!
Re:Clippy come back... by Anonymous Coward · 2008-01-25 10:24 · Score: 5, Funny

it looks like you're trying to resurrect me, would you like to:
BRAIINNSS