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After the Han, the Aico Chihira. Toshiba has developed a humanoid robot that works as rececionista Mitsukoshi in a Tokyo store, Japan Aico Chihira smiles, greets customers and is even able to blink the eye and sing

Remember the Han, the robot that Hanson Robotics is developing to serve on customer service? For Toshiba is a step forward and placed a robot, feminine appearance, working as rececionista Mitsukoshi in a Tokyo store. Of course this could only happen in Japan …

Since today that Aico Chihira is in store to get customers with a smile and charm. Is this robot, in addition to being able to greet, also sings and even winks.

Aico Chihira (which, it should be noted, is a common name for Nipponese land) has a similar synthetic leather human and so realistic looking that the most distracted customers can even judge who is alive

After all, rececionista is programmed with several phrases that will reciting while people (real) will sell the clothes of Mitsukoshi.

Toshiba already had presented this aspect of a humanoid robot technology fair in 2014, but the version that today began work presents several improvements.

“We are working to create a robot that gradually can do what a human does. This is a great opportunity to realize that role may have a humanoid in this type of environment, “said the spokesman of the company, quoted by the Japan Times.

Tomorrow, Aico Chihira will resign. After all, already have scheduled appointments all over the country, especially in technology-driven events.