The Robot Museum, Japan's first museum fully dedicated to educating visitors about the robots of the world, is scheduled to open in Nagoya's Sakae district in October, according to a June 29 announcement by Osaka-based robot venture GYROWALK and Osaka-based real estate auction services provider IDU.
Housed in a refurbished building that used to serve as an imported car showroom, the 2,600 square meter museum will center around an exhibition area entitled "Robothink," where everything from toy robots to industrial robots will be showcased in exhibits covering topics from robot history to the latest in robot technology. Some of the robots that enjoyed the limelight of the 2005 Aichi Expo, held just outside Nagoya, will be prominently featured.
The museum will also include a shopping area offering robot-related goods, as well as a cafe restaurant set in a near-future style environment where robots coexist peacefully with humans. (Advice: To maintain this peace, make sure to leave your droid waiter a generous tip.)
The entrance fee for the museum has yet to be determined.
[Sources: Yomiuri Shimbun, Nikkei Shimbun]
August
As nobody tips in Japan, tipping the waiter might cause a fatal malfunction, resulting in the robots blaming you for the death of their comrade, thus signalling the end of the peace and the beginning of the end of mankind.... :P
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I couldn't understand some parts of this article t Museum set to open in October ::: Pink Tentacle, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.
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