Company rents out robot as temp worker
‘It can greet people, show DVDs and hand out balloons. “Ubiko,” a robot-on-wheels with a catlike face, is joining the crew of temporary workers supplied by a Japanese job-referral company to stores, events and even weddings.
Next month, the 44-inch tall robot will be selling mobile phones at a store, said Akiko Sakurai, a spokeswoman at the company, Ubiquitous Exchange.
Ubiko can be hired as a temporary worker for two hours for 105,000 yen, or $890. “We see this as serious business. There are jobs that robots are better at,” Sakurai said. “People do develop an attachment with the robot, and it’s lovable.”‘
Read more at Company rents out robot as temp worker
Recent Entries
- Direct Brain Control of Humanoid Robot
- Declining Population to Propel Japanese Robotics Market
- Vietnam to host Asia Pacific students robot contest
- Microsoft unveils public robotics software
- Robots mix cocktails in Vienna
- Robotic Bartenders - Robomoji, Asahi and RoboBar
- Cocktail robots mix mojitos in Vienna
- Hospitals eye prostate surgery robot that some call ‘a toy’
- Troops Test Robotic Stryker
- NASA unveils strategy for return to moon using Robots