Grok Robots

This cute robot helps out in Japan by watching kids in a department store while parents shop. Kids have to wear special badges to let the robots know who they are. Hey, why not just implant some microchips for the robot to read? That would be a lot simpler. There are absolutely no ulterior motives at play here:

The robot … can also use a projector in one of its eyes to beam advertising messages

Except that one.

Another objective is to make sure that children are accustomed to robots, which are expected to be increasingly common in day-to-day life in Japan.

Ok, and that.