2 AI robots guide visitors during test trial at Tokyo Station

The lady in the photo looks well pleased. She must have enjoyed the services of the multi-lingual robot.

Please stop misusing the term AI. They are smart devices, but definitely not AI. Pepper is one of the most annoying things ever, by the way. A friend of mine works at a Softbank shop where they have a Pepper robot and they said it's turned off pretty much all the time with an "out of order" sign hung over it, because the voice is so incredibly annoying.

@smithinjapan

wow, seen these "out of order" signs quite a number of times

so they are actually not broken lol

Jr should devite their energy to safety on the platform so that people especially the blind don't fall onto the tracks.

Just another immature gimmick.

this is what happens when you ask 40 managers to make product no one asked for.

A friend of mine works at a Softbank shop where they have a Pepper robot and they said it's turned off pretty much all the time with an "out of order" sign hung over it, because the voice is so incredibly annoying.

They have one at my local Hamazushi (like the one on the video). Personally, I prefer the previous touch screen. It did the same things, but in a discreet way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDiQfbN_bFA

A couple of Kiwi friends visited for Golden Week and they couldn't have been more underwhelmed with what Japan has to offer in the high tech department.

The only thing they enjoyed was the 'Robot Restaurant' in Shinjuku but only in a kitschy way and not in the true sense of it being really high tech.

They couldn't believe that so much cash as opposed to electronic cash was still used in Japan and they were required to FAX their credit card details to the AirBNB they wanted to stay at.

Spitfire: "They couldn't believe that so much cash as opposed to electronic cash was still used in Japan and they were required to FAX their credit card details to the AirBNB they wanted to stay at."

I know, right?! I couldn't stop laughing last week when a guy I know said he was going to Yodobashi Camera in Osaka to look for fax machine paper. I asked him if he still used a pager, too (to a deer in headlights expression).

Tokyo-m:

Stick a hat on computer and call it a robot. Ridiculous.

Robot is a computer. Computer is a robot. Here his task is only to answer questions. He only need voice and data. He does not need arms or legs.

Please stop misusing the term AI.

How would you define it? It seems to meet the criteria for a "weak AI" such as Apple's Siri.

Does an AI Device Blue-face when crashing ?

Pepper is not a robot. It is a highly priced iPad holder.