A bank in Taiwan has deployed a robot to manage its lobby and provide customer service. The new robo banker, which has motorised wheels to move freely in the area, stands just shy of a metre tall. Equipped with the latest technology, the robot sports a 22-inch touch screen head and is capable of both speech synthesis and understanding natural language inputs. Duties for the ‘new staff’ include greeting customers, answering their questions and providing other basic banking tasks.
