Face of future: Customers speaking with a robot at the automated branch of China Construction Bank in Shanghai. — AP
SHANGHAI: Missed paying dues on your Communist Party membership? There’s a bank for that – and it’s fully automated.
A state-owned Chinese bank has opened an automated branch equipped with facial-scanning software, a virtual reality room, a hologram machine, talking robots and touchscreens for paying utility bills and Communist Party fees, among other functions.
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