Ok, to begin with, this may be the freakiest thing I’ve ever seen. Though it seems that the ATR (Osaka based Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute) has developed a “crowd-monitoring” humanoid robot. In ways it recognizes when people are lost and directs them where to go.

So in a series of demonstrations/tests that were conducted, a souped-up version of ATR’s humanoid robot was able to monitor passer byers within a 100 square meter (1,076 sq ft) section of Universal Citywalk Osaka.

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