Hand-built fortune-telling robot in Bangalore

Cory Doctorow 8:53 am Thu Nov 24, 2005

Paul photographed this brilliant hand-built "fortune-telling robot" in a market in Bangalore and got the back-story from its owner:

every sunday there is a guy with fortune telling robot on the place opposite of the main entrance of russell market in Bangalore. Apparently (the guy does not really speak english) the robot is about 5 years old, was built by someone from 'down south' who also supplies the tapes with the fortunes on them. against a small contribution the robot will tell fortunes in one of four 4 different languages (hindi, tamil, kannada & telgu) through headphones that are attached to its body.

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(Thanks, Paul!)

Update: Mark sez, "A follow-up to that fortune-telling robot in Bangalore… I found this one in Austria. He looks like a giant version of the same robot. He spoke in German and he waved his arms and turned back and forth. I don't know what he said but he sounded an awful lot like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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