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Robot Droids Help Lost Shoppers Navigate

Here is a another example of looking at the issue of navigation without a hand held device in the city, and this one works indoors too.

The Osaka-based Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute (ATR) has developed a crowd-monitoring humanoid robot that recognizes when people are lost and helps them find their way.

Imagine yourself walking done the street and asking one of these things, "hey, where is my car?" When you think about, most stores do not provide all that great in-store service these days. This might just be the answer. Do you suppose it will be able to recognise when you don't want to be bothered?

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