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March 23rd, 2007 at 4:00 am

Mospeng-kun

robot mospeng-kun tissue dispensing interrobotMospeng-kun is a tissue-dispensing robot created by InterRobot. Friendly and practical, it embodies all the positive qualities that robots should possess.

This is in stark contract to the dangerous and probably evil Terminator or Korean border death merchant kind of robots.

When Mospeng-kun detects a person nearby, it utters a high-pitched onegai shimasu and offers up a pack of tissues. When the tissues are taken from the robot’s hand, it thanks the customer with an arigato gozaimashita and grabs another tissue pack from the cartridge for the next person. Mospeng-kun looks to be a cheerful worker, constantly maintaining a smile on its face monitor. [Pink Tentacle]

These useful robots rent starting at 100,000 Yen ($835) for five days, although seems like it still has to be perfected a bit to work a little faster. So human!

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    great site

    darlen gagnon from cf r.i. on March 25th, 2007

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