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Pretty sure those are Chinese robots though: https://www.pudurobotics.com/en https://www.pudurobotics.com/en

• OneDeuxTriSeiGo 2y ago
  Pudu is a chinese company but idk how that's necessarily relevant. Bellabots are rather common in Japan and other places as well. Kerfus for example is a branded Polish bellabot that's quite famous globally. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerfu%C5%9B https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerfu%C5%9B
  • chvid 2y ago
    It is the same in Germany where you see them in Rewe and Mediamarkt with local branding. But my point was that the “cat ears” are a Chinese design - and not Japanese as implied by the headline. It is getting be big business though - Pudu has 80.000 employees. So I guess some find them useful.
    • signatoremo 2y ago
      > not Japanese as implied by the headline. Neither the submission nor the Bloomberg's article headline implies the robots are Japanese.