Japanse winkel test Shopping Assistent Robot

RFID in Japan (via: MIT Advertising Lab):

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.