The Japanese children watched by the babysitter robot

Would you let a robot baby seat your children?




The latest information characteristic Japanese is that the parents can let their children baby seat by a robot while they are at shopping.
Tmsuk it`s a 1.40 meters high "hired" by the shop chain Aeon, who can interact with the child using a projector integrated into one of the eye and a digital web cam found in the other eye. The robot can also speak with the child, but it has a poor vocabulary.
The robot finds out the name of the child from a special label that contains a signal code who the child has to wear and who Tmsuk can read.
The designers of the robot hope that the future generations can be used to guide the customers into the shops and also serv as a conversation partner.