Mrs. Saya, the new receptionist in the foyer of the Alon High Technology Building at Ben Gurion University

The model of the "Receptionist" robot was purchased by Ben-Gurion University researchers for the purpose of further development and was placed in the lobby of the Alon High Technology Building, as part of the trend to place advanced technological developments in the building, befitting the nature of the place

Mrs. Saya, an energetic receptionist in the magnificent foyer of Benin Alon for High Technology at Ben-Gurion University, hid a peaceful smile in the sentence "Can I help you?". In the process, she greets peace, and answers questions from visitors to the local university. However, when she failed in her attempt to bless an employee who passed her by, an enraged professor turned to Saya and scolded her severely.

"You fool!" Said the professor, Hiroshi Kabayashi, as he rose towards her reception desk.

"Ah" answered Saya, her face crumpling into a sullen look. "I'm telling you, I'm not stupid!"

The truth is, Saya isn't even human. But in a country where robots are changing the way people live, the nature of their work, the nature of games and even the nature of love, this does not stop Saya, the cyber-receptionist from protecting herself from people who have exceeded the rules of behavior. From voice recognition technology that enables 700 modes of verbal torture and almost endless facial expressions, from joy to despair, surprise to anger, Saya may not be a biological creature—but she's no one's fool.

"I almost feel that she is a real person," said Prof. Kabayashi, a faculty member at the Tokyo University of Science and the inventor of Saya, who has been working at the university for about four years. "She has moods... and she sometimes makes mistakes, especially when she has weak energies," says the professor.

Saya's rage is the definitive expression of the rise of consciousness in the use of robots. Experts claim that Japan is considered the leading country in the world in the developing field of the new generation of robot consumers. Some scientists call this wave the next technological force that will change the way people live more radically than the revolution of computers or cell phones.

The model of the "Receptionist" robot was purchased by Ben-Gurion University researchers for the purpose of continuing its development and was placed in the lobby of the Alon High Technology Building, as part of the trend to place advanced technological developments in the building, befitting the nature of the place. Prof. Kabayashi came to Israel for a week as the guest of Prof. Shlomi Dolev, Prof. Eyal Shimoni and Prof. Mattiyo Katz from the Department of Computer Science at Ben-Gurion University. The goal is to cooperate in the field of high technology in the future.