HUMANOID ROBOTS GREETING JAPANESE SHOPPERS–TOSHIBA LAUNCHES ITS OWN ROBOT AIKO CHICHIRA TO DO THE EVERYDAY TASK OF NONE STOP GREETING OF CUSTOMERS IN A TOKYO MALL

Japanese electronics maker Toshiba has launched a humanoid robot at a busy Tokyo mall.
Online media said the 165-centimeter robot, Aiko Chihira, was clad in a traditional Japanese silk kimono and stationed at the information reception desk of Mitsukoshi department store to help shoppers.
Hitoshi Tokuda, Toshiba's head of new business development, made Chihira with a team of programmers. She is meant to resemble a 32-year-old woman.

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