Chennai, April 23 -- In a novel initiative to woo the electorate, all the voters entering the polling booths in Vellore and Coimbatore were received and greeted with Robots, which also provided drinking water bottles to ensure that the voters avoid dehydration amid sizzling heat wave conditions during the Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu on Thursday.
Reports received here said voters are in for a pleasant surprise as a G1 humanoid robot, welcomed them with a message stressing the importance of exercising the democratic right, thereby creating awareness among the electorate.
This model polling booth with the Humanoid robot was set up at the Government Muslim Higher Secondary School in Vellore.
A report from Coimbatore said, as the mercury...