Robot babysitters are here [JapanWTF]
A Japanese department store has introduced a robot babysitter designed to entertain the children of shopping parents.
The kids wear special coded badges the robot can read, allowing it to identify kids by their names & ages and talk with them. A projector built into one of its eyes beams advertising messages to the kids, as well as pictures that it has captured with a camera installed in the other eye.
Obligatory Futurama quote: “Sleep, little dumpling. I have replaced your mother.”
WTF Japan? As if depersonalizing a kid’s social interactions and bombarding them with buy crap ads is the answer to anything. What if some precious little snowflake flips out and starts screaming and crying about some other precious snowflake hogging the Sitter-Tron? No mommy, daddy, or human babysitter is around to efficiently settle the situation. Unless the Sitter-Tron is equipped with Baby-Taze technology or something.
And I bet that camera is rolling all the time, just in case little Johnny takes the opportunity only unsupervised kids know and steals something. It would be considered a “security measure” and not a “down mom’s blouse while picking Johnny up” peeping device. Are the video recordings monitored like regular security cameras? How funny would it be if they weren’t?! “Projector on… *shows images of some anonymous perv’s uglies*…”
I wonder what Isaac Asimov would say.
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Comment by Baby Sitter on 17 April 2008:
Oh,The Japanese department store has introduced a robot babysitter designed to entertain the children of shopping parents is good.The kids wear special coded badges the robot can read, allowing it to identify kids by their names & ages and talk with them is more intresting.
Comment by Jonesy on 17 April 2008:
Ok… but:
“As if depersonalizing a kid’s social interactions and bombarding them with buy crap ads is the answer to anything.”
“No mommy, daddy, or human babysitter is around to efficiently settle [a] situation.”
“Are the video recordings monitored like regular security cameras? How funny would it be if they weren’t?! ‘Projector on… *shows images of some anonymous perv’s uglies*…’”
Did you read past the second paragraph? LoL