Cool Robots With Stupid Jobs: The Tamanoi Robot

Please look carefully at the robot to the right. Jet black with ominously glowing eyes, he looks like a cyborg of the Sith, or perhaps a torturer robot from the S&M dungeons of the future. He is as evil looking as he is completely awesome.

He also has a job far more ignominious than his looks. He was not built, as you might expect, to destroy humanity, or to inflict sadomasochistic pleasure upon humanity's most buxom women. His job is to educate visitors to the Tamanoi Vinegar Corporation in Osaka, Japan about their product: black vinegar.

Relying on pre-programmed speech and gestures to communicate its knowledge of vinegar, the robot features a system of pneumatic servos that control 24 points of articulation in the upper half of its body. The 180 cm (nearly 6 ft), 100 kg (220 lb) machine has a mouth that moves in sync with its voice, as well as a fiber-reinforced plastic outer shell that is colored black — like Tamanoi’s black vinegar — with an iridescent coating that changes hue according to the viewing angle.

He also apparently presents a twelve minute documentary about the vinegar making process, which I'm sure is just fascinating. Someone needs to sneak into the Tamanoi plant and implant a kill chip ASAP.

Tamanoi Vinegar Robot [Pink Tentacle]