Robot babysitter always ready to teach

Major Japanese retailer Aeon Co. said Tuesday it has introduced a 1.4-metre (four-foot-seven) yellow-and-white robot at a store in the southern city of Fukuoka in charge of entertaining the children.
If parents want to leave their children with the kid-sized machine, they arrange for the youngsters to wear special badges that bear codes which the robot can read.

It will then entertain them with limited conversation and by taking fun pictures, which the robot can display thanks to a projection unit mounted on its head.The projection unit also serves a second, somewhat dubious purpose: displaying advertisements. While parents enjoy time away from their young ones, the robotic babysitters will no doubt be projecting all manner of sweets and awesome toys around the play area.
Via EnGadget