Penguin teacher for Bot Bellboys at a Tokyo Disney hotel

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[floatr][/floatr]Hitachi's Humanoid Robot EMIEW to Appear in Show at Sheraton Grande
JCN Newswire, Feb 24, 2006
Tokyo, Japan----Hitachi and Hitachi Building Systems jointly announced on February 23 that they will organize an event for children, in which Hitachi's proprietary humanoid robot EMIEW will make an appearance, in collaboration with the Sheraton Grande Tokyo Bay Hotel.
Costarring with the Hotel's official mascot Penton [the penguin], EMIEW will demonstrate its abilities in speech synthesis, voice recognition, and autonomous moving... EMIEW will learn proper wording and behavior as a hotel clerk from Penton....more...

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[floatr][/floatr]Hitachi's Humanoid Robot EMIEW to Appear in Show at Sheraton Grande
JCN Newswire, Feb 24, 2006
Tokyo, Japan----Hitachi and Hitachi Building Systems jointly announced on February 23 that they will organize an event for children, in which Hitachi's proprietary humanoid robot EMIEW will make an appearance, ...

[floatr][/floatr][SIZE="3"][color="Red"]That's because the EMIEW is powered by small children. It "processes" them as a power source and requires at least 3 toddlers a week to funtion 24/7 ...[/color][/SIZE]

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Hitachi Develops Crowd-Navigating Robot
Tokyo, Sept 12, 2006 (JCN) -Hitachi Ltd., in collaboration with Tsukuba University, has developed the Excellent Mobility and Interactive Existance (sic) as Workmate (EMIEW) robot, which can walk between people without bumping into them and navigate crowded places.
The robot moves at at 0.8m per second and uses a laser sensor to detect the distance of obstacles. During trials, the robot smoothly passed four people walking at speeds of up to 1.2m per second....more...