{"id":24821,"date":"2020-11-16T14:21:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T05:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/16\/japan-shop-deploys-robot-to-check-people-are-wearing-face-masks"},"modified":"2020-11-16T14:21:53","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T05:21:53","slug":"japan-shop-deploys-robot-to-check-people-are-wearing-face-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24821","title":{"rendered":"Japan shop deploys robot to check people are wearing face masks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robovie uses lasers to measure social distancing, politely asks shoppers to cover up and guides them around the store<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A shop in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> has enlisted a robot to ensure customers are wearing masks, as the country prepares for a possible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/11\/japan-warns-of-third-wave-amid-rising-covid-infections\">third wave<\/a> of coronavirus infections.<\/p>\n<p>Robovie, developed by the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International in Kyoto, is able to pick out customers who aren\u2019t wearing masks and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QlEa2typGGY&amp;feature=emb_logo\">politely ask them to cover up<\/a>. It can also intervene when they fail to socially distance while queuing up to pay.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/16\/japan-shop-deploys-robot-to-check-people-are-wearing-face-masks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robovie uses lasers to measure social distancing, politely asks shoppers to cover up and guides them around the storeCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA shop in Japan has enlisted a robot to ensure customers are wearing masks,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-japan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24822,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24821\/revisions\/24822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}