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Japan has deployed robots to work in Tokyo subway stations to help tourists in preparation for the 2020 Olympic Games. The six-foot robot named Arisa, created by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, will give subway travellers directions and show them the way to the restrooms. Tokyo is facing an influx of millions of spectators for the forthcoming international event which they will host for the second time in history, after 1964. An ageing population and low birth rate has resulted in a national labour shortage, prompting the need for multilingual Arisa to guide the swarm of foreign tourists. Japan has deployed robots to work in Tokyo subway stations to direct tourists in preparation for the 2020 Olympic Games. Arisa is a project by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We'll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here's what we have so far (send us your events!): Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos. In preparation for Sunday's World Cup final between France and Croatia, ETH Zurich and ANYbotics decided to teach their quadruped robots some soccer moves, which included head shots, bicycle kicks, and the required fake injury (0:07): Alphabet's advanced tech division X has graduated a couple of flying robot projects recently: Loon and Wing. We posted earlier this week about Toyota AI Ventures' call for mobile manipulation startups, and here's a follow-up video with a bit more detail than was in the press release.

"It used to be the stuff of science fiction. But now, robots are all around us. They're even in our hotel rooms," Grant Imahara, robot expert, and former MythBuster says as he introduces the Generation Robot video series. This five-part series takes Grant around the world to explore the companies that are bringing humans and robots together. Part one takes him to Georgia Tech University Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM) in Atlanta, the first school to offer an interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in robotics.

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This video is about future robot technology.It is expected that future robot would have Artificial Intelligence.It is the next generation robotics technology.