Japan robot receptionist welcomes shoppers
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Tokyo
SHE can smile, she can sing and this robot receptionist who started work in Tokyo on Monday never gets bored of welcoming customers to her upmarket shop.
"My name is ChihiraAico. How do you do?" she says in Japanese, blinking and nodding to customers in the foyer of Mitsukoshi, Japan's oldest department store chain. Clad in an elegant traditional kimono, ChihiraAico - a name that sounds similar to a regular Japanese woman's name - breaks into a rosy-lipped smile as would-be shoppers approach.
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