Robot diplomacy

Japanese robots are great at bowing. They're not so good at locating missing airliners or clearing debris from radiation-spewing nuclear plants.

At least someone appears to have coached him on the proper mode of bowing a superior uses. Slight bow, head and eyes up.

@tmarie: Why so serious all the time?! Relax.... It's not like they're gonna be in meetings 24/7!

Obama should have kowtowed to the superior robot.

Yes, good. Start showing submissiveness now and maybe when Robots take over the world they'll be nicer to us.

Bowing to a robot?! What the?!

@bruinfanAPR. 24, 2014 - 11:58PM JST How about the robot going into the Fukushima nuclear power plant? That is the real "R2-D"2 type of hero. This one is just a protocol droid.

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Not the human lookalike robot but various large robotic gadgets are already in use.

How about the robot going into the Fukushima nuclear power plant? That is the real "R2-D"2 type of hero. This one is just a protocol droid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAfrJc-E0WA

Asimo you're the man!!!!! I mean you're the robot! Playing soccer with Mr.Obama kawaiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!

This robot is cuter than a bi-linguistic robot receptionist I met in a Vegas Electronic Convention several years ago. Watch out. You have to find out who is a real life person or who is a robot.

Pres. Obama met a robot in Japan ! Who coached him how to bow as a head of USA? Maybe he knows about Japan just like Ambassador Kennedy,

Seriously? Of all the things they need to chat about Abe is taking him to look at robots??

What version of the Asimo did they have as it gets updated with new functions and abilities all the time? You can't buy only for rent.

Obama took a soccer pass from it.

Pretty cool museum. I went last year. That robot was awesome.... when it was built 14 years ago!!!! That massive globe they have that is a video screen is 1000 times cooler.

Looks good! To bow is a big thing to everybody outside Japan... :-)

Kawaii!!!!!!!! God bless America!

President bowing to Robot is probably a smart move.

Just imagine what the comments would be like if Obama had an (R) behind his name.

RR

Can't wait for Fox News to lose their sh*t that President Obama bowed to a robot. ;)

I hope we don't now have to read about some people in the US complaining that Obama bowed to a robot.