Rong Cheng is a Chinese Beauty Robot that debuted at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing a few days ago. She dances, she greets people, she responds to around a thousand words in the Sichuan dialect. She also costs around 300,000 yuan to build, which is a comparatively modest £20,000 pounds, give or take, considering everything she does. Should she get past the prototype phase, economies of scale could easily bring her down to the point where secretaries (pardon me, executive assistants) go entirely out of style. Rong Cheng doesn't need sick days, for instance. [GT]
Beauty Robot [via Gearlog]
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