• Future Robot is from the future

    John Biggs

    Biggs is the East Coast Editor of TechCrunch. Biggs has written for the New York Times, InSync, USA Weekend, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Money and a number of other outlets on technology and wristwatches. He is the former editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.com and lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. You can Tweet him here and G+ him here. Email him directly at... → Learn More

    Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

    Next time you walk into a Starbucks, be ready to scream. Future Robot AKA Furo here is an order-taking robot from Korea with a woman’s “face” and a robot’s body designed to make you feel comfortable while shopping. Why the disjointed design? Because it makes you feel better to see an animated face, I guess.

    Goofy stuff like this is all in good fun, but why not put a mannequin head on there instead of making Max Headroom? The old girl can apparently dance, as well, but little else.

    via PlasticPals

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