by: Ilya Vedrashko
"NTT Communications and Tmsuk will test an RFID-driven shopping assistant robot at a shoping mall in Fukuoka. The pilot test will take place on the 9th of February and lasts till the 15th. The robot can assist in-store shoppers as well as remote shoppers.
Home shoppers could use a browser on a personal computer to control the service robot and view the in-store environments through the robot's camera and communicate with (human) sales agents through videoconferencing."
— RFID in Japan
Original Post: http://adverlab.blogspot.com/2006/02/shopping-assistant-robot-ready-for.html
