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Saturday, July 1, 2006

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Support Bloggers' Rights! HOWTO: Get a link posted to Boing Boing Boing Boing Mobile powered by Winksite Fark rules! This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution. Boing Boing is a trademark of Happy Mutants LLC in the United States [and other countries]. Stats (About our stats) defeat censorware Policies Our first five years' worth of posts in one file	Saturday, July 1, 2006 Japan's first robot museum to open in Oct. '06 Designers are transforming a 2600-square-~~foot~~meter former car showroom into Japan's first robot museum, with a planned opening in October, 2006. Exhibits will cover a wide range of models, from toys to industrial helpers to outer space explorers. Humans and robots will enjoy snacks side by side in a robot cafe on-site. Museum planners anticipate nearly half a million visitors a year. Yomiuri Shimbun article: English, Japanese. (via tobeasian.com, and digitalworldtokyo, thanks Cameron!) posted by Xeni Jardin at 02:04:46 PM permalink \| Other blogs' comments Email this entry to: Your email address: Message (optional):	Boing Boing Sponsored by: Your Text Ad Here Get BB by email: