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Graveyard shift: Zombie-like robot helps guard cemetery at night | Global Times


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20 November 2016



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A cemetery in Henan Province has hired on a new security guard that is not exactly alive. The humanoid robot, which the Chaoyang Cemetery in Luoyang says is intended to escort female employees while on their rounds during the graveyard shift. The uniformed robo-guard either walks or can pull a rickshaw carrying one of the employees as they patrol the grounds…

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