SmartPal Wants Your Job

Straight out of Japan comes the latest robot to ease our daily lives whilst threatening our jobs.  Yasukawa Electric Corporation’s SmartPal V is a 1.3-meter tall rolling bot loaded with all the proximity, speech recognition, and object-detecting sensors we’ve come to expect from today’s modern mech; along with improved dexterity thanks to additional joints and lumbar units as compared to previous models.  This latest SmartPal, which was introduced at the 2007 International Robot Exhibition, also rocks its own accessories, such as a head-mounted projector to push the world’s last remaining tour guides into early retirement.

[Via Engadget Chinese]