Comments on: Mospeng-kun: tissue-dispensing robot http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/03/mospeng-kun-tissue-dispensing-robot/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:16:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Robots Stealing Our Jobs « Den of Hydralisks http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/03/mospeng-kun-tissue-dispensing-robot/#comment-30702 Robots Stealing Our Jobs « Den of Hydralisks Fri, 23 Mar 2007 19:25:41 +0000 http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/03/mospeng-kun-tissue-dispensing-robot/#comment-30702 [...] But now there are robots who can perform this vital task! [...] […] But now there are robots who can perform this vital task! […]

]]> By: Nicodraxus T http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/03/mospeng-kun-tissue-dispensing-robot/#comment-30438 Nicodraxus T Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:26:52 +0000 http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/03/mospeng-kun-tissue-dispensing-robot/#comment-30438 Well Eeyore, they're just tissues. I've been living in Tokyo for almost 10 years, and received more than a few of these little bundles (though never from a robot). True that many public washrooms don't have toilet paper (we're talking the public-toilets-in-parks kind of toilet here, not in the convenience store or in departments stores of course, which are plentiful. I can't remember the last time I had to use one of those no-toilet-paper outhouse-like places.) But you can really use them any way you like. They're just fine for blowing the old nose too. Oh, and they give 'em to foreigners all right. Believe me. After you've been here long enough, you go out of your way to avoid them. But whether you get offered basically just depends on the person handing them out. There are no real instructions to these university kids that are handing them out. A few non-Japanese here feel like they're being left out on purpose, when it's far more likely that the person handing them out is thinking, "Oh no... I don't know how to say 'Yoroshiku onegaishimasu' in English! I'll just let him walk by..." I'm a guy. I've been given ads for everything from manga coffee shops, to eyewear shops, to hostess bars, to make-up ads and beauty salons. It doesn't really seem to matter who gets them. Most of the dispensing people really don't care. They just have to unload x-many boxes per day. Any perceived affront is usually on the part of the paranoid foreigner. Well Eeyore, they’re just tissues. I’ve been living in Tokyo for almost 10 years, and received more than a few of these little bundles (though never from a robot). True that many public washrooms don’t have toilet paper (we’re talking the public-toilets-in-parks kind of toilet here, not in the convenience store or in departments stores of course, which are plentiful. I can’t remember the last time I had to use one of those no-toilet-paper outhouse-like places.) But you can really use them any way you like. They’re just fine for blowing the old nose too.

Oh, and they give ‘em to foreigners all right. Believe me. After you’ve been here long enough, you go out of your way to avoid them. But whether you get offered basically just depends on the person handing them out. There are no real instructions to these university kids that are handing them out. A few non-Japanese here feel like they’re being left out on purpose, when it’s far more likely that the person handing them out is thinking, “Oh no… I don’t know how to say ‘Yoroshiku onegaishimasu’ in English! I’ll just let him walk by…”

I’m a guy. I’ve been given ads for everything from manga coffee shops, to eyewear shops, to hostess bars, to make-up ads and beauty salons. It doesn’t really seem to matter who gets them. Most of the dispensing people really don’t care. They just have to unload x-many boxes per day. Any perceived affront is usually on the part of the paranoid foreigner.

]]> By: Japundit » Mospeng-kun http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/03/mospeng-kun-tissue-dispensing-robot/#comment-30420 Japundit » Mospeng-kun Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:00:47 +0000 http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/03/mospeng-kun-tissue-dispensing-robot/#comment-30420 [...] This is in stark contract to the dangerous and probably evil Terminator or Korean border death merchant kind of robots. When Mospeng-kun detects a person nearby, it utters a high-pitched onegai shimasu and offers up a pack of tissues. When the tissues are taken from the robot’s hand, it thanks the customer with an arigato gozaimashita and grabs another tissue pack from the cartridge for the next person. Mospeng-kun looks to be a cheerful worker, constantly maintaining a smile on its face monitor. [Pink Tentacle] [...] […] This is in stark contract to the dangerous and probably evil Terminator or Korean border death merchant kind of robots. When Mospeng-kun detects a person nearby, it utters a high-pitched onegai shimasu and offers up a pack of tissues. When the tissues are taken from the robot’s hand, it thanks the customer with an arigato gozaimashita and grabs another tissue pack from the cartridge for the next person. Mospeng-kun looks to be a cheerful worker, constantly maintaining a smile on its face monitor. [Pink Tentacle] […]

]]> By: teknoloji http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/03/mospeng-kun-tissue-dispensing-robot/#comment-30395 teknoloji Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:20:45 +0000 http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/03/mospeng-kun-tissue-dispensing-robot/#comment-30395 <strong>Peçete dağıtan Robot...</strong> Mospeng-kun, InterRobot Inc. adlı Japonyanın batısında bulunan robot geliştirme ve kiralama şirketi tarafından geliştirilmiş peçete dağıtan robot. Robot yaklaşan insanları algıladıgı zaman pe&... Peçete dağıtan Robot…

Mospeng-kun, InterRobot Inc. adlı Japonyanın batısında bulunan robot geliştirme ve kiralama şirketi tarafından geliştirilmiş peçete dağıtan robot. Robot yaklaşan insanları algıladıgı zaman pe&…

]]> By: Tech Digest http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/03/mospeng-kun-tissue-dispensing-robot/#comment-30380 Tech Digest Thu, 22 Mar 2007 07:14:26 +0000 http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/03/mospeng-kun-tissue-dispensing-robot/#comment-30380 <strong>Mospeng Kun: Tissue Dispensing Robot...</strong> With all the advances being made in the field of robotics, it's a little difficult at first to understand why InterRobot, Inc would develop...... Mospeng Kun: Tissue Dispensing Robot…

With all the advances being made in the field of robotics, it’s a little difficult at first to understand why InterRobot, Inc would develop……

]]> By: OhGizmo! » Archive » Mospeng-kun Robot To Dispense Tissue Paper; Slower And More Expensive Than Human Equivalent http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/03/mospeng-kun-tissue-dispensing-robot/#comment-30263 OhGizmo! » Archive » Mospeng-kun Robot To Dispense Tissue Paper; Slower And More Expensive Than Human Equivalent Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:13:37 +0000 http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/03/mospeng-kun-tissue-dispensing-robot/#comment-30263 [...] [ Company Website (Japanese)] VIA [ PinkTentacle ] [...] […] [ Company Website (Japanese)] VIA [ PinkTentacle ] […]

]]> By: akagisan http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/03/mospeng-kun-tissue-dispensing-robot/#comment-30063 akagisan Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:28:45 +0000 http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/03/mospeng-kun-tissue-dispensing-robot/#comment-30063 Oh no, the already annoying tissue distributor people now also get backup by robots! I remember strolling in Shibuya and every 5m there where this tissue dispender people which you had to avoid... Oh no, the already annoying tissue distributor people now also get backup by robots! I remember strolling in Shibuya and every 5m there where this tissue dispender people which you had to avoid…

]]> By: roninarts http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/03/mospeng-kun-tissue-dispensing-robot/#comment-29879 roninarts Tue, 20 Mar 2007 00:40:47 +0000 http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/03/mospeng-kun-tissue-dispensing-robot/#comment-29879 [...] 1 - Mospeng-kun: tissue-dispensing robot ::: Pink Tentacle [...] […] 1 - Mospeng-kun: tissue-dispensing robot ::: Pink Tentacle […]

]]> By: Eeyore http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/03/mospeng-kun-tissue-dispensing-robot/#comment-29614 Eeyore Sun, 18 Mar 2007 13:32:59 +0000 http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/03/mospeng-kun-tissue-dispensing-robot/#comment-29614 I've never been to Japan, but I'm told that those aren't "facial tissues", that's "bathroom tissue". Reportedly, public bathrooms don't often have supplies of "toilet paper" in them. People on the street hand out packages of TP that are covered in advertising for local businesses. So, when you need to use a facility, first you grab some TP from a person on the street, then you head to the facility for your business, and they hope you read the advertising while you're in there. One problem with this system is that the advertisers don't want to give tissue to foreigners who probably don't read Japanese and probably won't visit the advertised business. I’ve never been to Japan, but I’m told that those aren’t “facial tissues”, that’s “bathroom tissue”. Reportedly, public bathrooms don’t often have supplies of “toilet paper” in them. People on the street hand out packages of TP that are covered in advertising for local businesses. So, when you need to use a facility, first you grab some TP from a person on the street, then you head to the facility for your business, and they hope you read the advertising while you’re in there. One problem with this system is that the advertisers don’t want to give tissue to foreigners who probably don’t read Japanese and probably won’t visit the advertised business.

]]> By: dafuzz http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/03/mospeng-kun-tissue-dispensing-robot/#comment-29596 dafuzz Sun, 18 Mar 2007 10:36:51 +0000 http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/03/mospeng-kun-tissue-dispensing-robot/#comment-29596 People unfamiliar with Japan might not understand the concept of "tissue kubari", a kind of street marketing where kids hand out free tissues to passersby near train stations. The free tissues usually come with a printed card inside that's like an advertisement. Mospeng-kun looks like it's made for tissue kubari work, but maybe a little slow... People unfamiliar with Japan might not understand the concept of “tissue kubari”, a kind of street marketing where kids hand out free tissues to passersby near train stations. The free tissues usually come with a printed card inside that’s like an advertisement. Mospeng-kun looks like it’s made for tissue kubari work, but maybe a little slow…

]]> By: Multi Medium » Oh Dear. http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/03/mospeng-kun-tissue-dispensing-robot/#comment-29521 Multi Medium » Oh Dear. Sat, 17 Mar 2007 20:39:52 +0000 http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/03/mospeng-kun-tissue-dispensing-robot/#comment-29521 [...] I, for one, welcome our smiley tissue-dispensing robot overlords… [...] […] I, for one, welcome our smiley tissue-dispensing robot overlords… […]

]]> By: iHandheld.mobi » The robotic tissue dispenser (or spy?) http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/03/mospeng-kun-tissue-dispensing-robot/#comment-29367 iHandheld.mobi » The robotic tissue dispenser (or spy?) Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:59:37 +0000 http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/03/mospeng-kun-tissue-dispensing-robot/#comment-29367 [...] If automation breeds laziness, this is a prime example. It’s one thing for Japanese scientists to develop robots that can help their country’s aging society for such reasons as health and safety, but is a tissue-dispensing bot really necessary? [...] […] If automation breeds laziness, this is a prime example. It’s one thing for Japanese scientists to develop robots that can help their country’s aging society for such reasons as health and safety, but is a tissue-dispensing bot really necessary? […]

]]> By: gearfuse http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/03/mospeng-kun-tissue-dispensing-robot/#comment-29324 gearfuse Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:54:13 +0000 http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/03/mospeng-kun-tissue-dispensing-robot/#comment-29324 [...] Link (translated from Japanese) [via] READ MORE: japan, robot, tissues, youtube Posted March 16th 2007 Permalink | Email this | Comments (0) [...] […] Link (translated from Japanese) [via] READ MORE: japan, robot, tissues, youtube Posted March 16th 2007 Permalink | Email this | Comments (0) […]

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