Video of Japanese model falsely shared as 'lifelike robot greeting passengers at Tokyo airport'

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Video of Japanese model falsely shared as 'lifelike robot greeting passengers at Tokyo airport'
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🇯🇵 🤖 Video of a lifelike robot greeting passengers at Tokyo's airport? ❌ This video shows Japanese model Saori Takayama/saotvos acting as an android in a free-hug event outside a station in Tokyo in 2019.

on Facebook on January 8, 2022, where it has been viewed more than 20,000 times.

"At Japan's Tokyo airport, an iconic, attractive robot is tasked with greeting and hugging passengers. Would she still be around if she were in Indonesia... or would she be missing?" reads the Indonesian-language caption of the post. The one-minute footage shows a woman waving her hand and moving her head in a robotic manner, followed by scenes of her hugging people one by one.The video has been viewed more than 38,000 times after it was shared alongside a similar claim on Facebook

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