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Hong Kong’s first robot-run convenience store draws curious shoppers

Hong Kong’s first robot-run convenience store draws curious shoppers

By GhanaSummary NewsroomSouth Africa

Hong Kong‘s first robot-operated convenience stores drew curious shoppers on Saturday as locals interacted with a humanoid shopkeeper, chatted with it in multiple languages and watched it dance.

Beijing-based embodied-intelligence robotics company Galbot launched three outlets in Hong Kong on Tuesday (September 1), operated by its G1 robot, a 173-cm-tall humanoid designed for retail tasks.

The Hong Kong outlets mark its first expansion outside the mainland.

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