Shanghai gets automated bank with VR, robots, and face scanning


  • TECH
  • Monday, 23 Apr 2018

Bank customers speak with a robot at an automated branch, dubbed China's first 'unmanned bank'.

A 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 among other functions.

The branch opened in central Shanghai's Huangpu district and is being hyped as China's first "unmanned bank."

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