Community robot in Southern Japan

The Robotics Industry Development Council (RIDC) of Fukuoka Prefecture in the Kyushu region of Japan announced that they have developed a cleaning and information service robot called RIDC-01 that will be working at the local government as well as other public locations so that the "residents in the community can get used to seeing and interacting with robots in everyday life."  The new robot was made by tmsuk Co., KITHIT Co. and Kyushu Institute of Technology.  RIDC is a collaboration between government, industry and academia trying to incubate a robotics industry in Fukuoka.