Kinba the robot lands job on reception at King's College

Kinba has only just started on the front desk of King's College but the students are already in love with their new receptionist who can see, hear and have a stab at speaking. Under normal circumstances that would be unremarkable – but Kinba is a robot. Kinba, who has yet to be assigned a gender, took up its new post last week alongside the London university's existing – human – receptionist Camilla Templing at its building on the Strand. "Kinba's generated a real buzz of excitement about the place, to see it moving and speaking. People are coming and taking pictures and talking to it," Ms Templing says.