There's a hotel inside a theme park in Nagasaki, Japan, that hopes to eventually be 100-percent staffed with robots. Phase 1 is the check-in desk. A handful of animatronic androids fashioned to look like attractive Japanese women will greet you and check you in whether you speak Japanese, Chinese, Korean or English.
The year was 1970, Christmas morning, and one huge present under the Christmas tree. What could it be?! I can remember ripping the wrapping paper off in likety slpit time. And their it was... KING DING and his BRAIN ROBOT!! the mighty King Ding was unique in that here was a combination of two robots in one...
This is pretty stupid, but scientists at the University of Tokyo wanted to create a robot to demonstrate human-machine cooperation systems...whatever that means.