When I was traveling through Seoul back in mid-Nov for the MAX Korea conference, I came across this autonomous robot at the Seoul airport when I was leaving.

My impression was it was meant to be an airport greeter for departing passengers and to provide real-time information about flights, locations and amenities via an interactive touchscreen interface. Couldn't tell if it was done in Flash or not but it was nicely done. It was helpful and did provide the information I was looking for even though I already had a good idea of where I needed to go.

Overall it was pretty cool and what I noticed was that some kids would come right up to it and start talking and touching it's screen, however older people would make an effort to avoid it by walking around. Given that Korea is so far ahead of the US in terms of technology, I don't expect to see a robot greeter in the San Francisco airport any time soon - too bad.

update: because of bandwidth issues by my provider I had to remove the direct video on my site and instead point to the original video on YouTube.