The South Korean government is due to pilot a 1 billion won ($875,000) scheme that will see robots act as wardens at one the country’s prisons in the latest in a series of government initiatives aimed at boosting its robotics industry.
The month-long trial will take place in March 2012 at a jail in the eastern city of Pohang and will involve three robots.
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