Japan tests multilingual robots ahead of 2020 Olympics

Multilingual robot concierges will welcome visitors at a Tokyo Metropolitan Government's building to test their practical usage ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games.
 
The trial is part of the metropolitan government's efforts to help accelerate developments of such robots for use by foreign tourists visiting Japan.
 
Five different types of robots will be installed at one of its buildings near Shinjuku Station from Monday through late February next year.
 
The robots can communicate in several languages, such as Japanese, English, Chinese and Korean.
 
The metropolitan government hopes that the robots will be put to practical use in time for the 2020 Tokyo Games as a display of Japan's state-of-the-art technologies.

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