Well, that didn’t take long. Only some months after Fujisoft’s PALRO was formally introduced to the Japanese education segment, said humanoid is now set to receive a bunch of latest applications in addition as become useful as a people tracker. It’s bruited that PALRO will soon gain a Twitter client (to read tweets aloud as best it would), a cooking app, a Japanese word game and remote monitoring abilities (among others), however it’s unclear how these obviously commercial apps can help / not help the robot inch in the direction of a citizen’s release. In related news, PALRO has been spotted with a couple of newfound abilities, namely the instinct to track people and objects via its built-in camera. We’ll spare you the rhetoric on why teaching these items to observe our every move is a tragic, tragic mistake, but be at liberty to peek the video after the break in the event you’re brushing the inevitable downfall of mankind off as a silly rumor.
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