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Added on the 02/07/2021 14:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
At Tokyo’s newly opened Dawn café, robots whizz around chatting with customers and taking orders. But rather than AI, they are powered by humans thousands of kilometres away whose disabilities make leaving home difficult.
Customers at a new cafe in Tokyo give their orders, not to a person, but to a robot.
Meet Alter the Android, a robot with artificial intelligence so advanced, that his creators claim that he has free will. The new humanoid robot interacts with people and moves through an embedded Central Pattern Generator, or CPG, which allows him to express quite a wide range of different motions. The secret of the CPG is that its designed to work almost exactly like a human brain.
Robots welcome guests at the check-in counter, carry baggage and operate a locker room at a Japanese amusement park hotel. Sharon Reich reports
Authorities are looking for a man suspected of starting a fire in the port city of Osaka which ended up killing 24 people in a hospital.