• Sebastien Cagnon, behavior architect at Aldebaran Robotics SA (right), holds a demonstration with the firm's NAO robot at the International Robot Exhibition 2013 in Tokyo in November 2013. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. will trial the device in two branches in Tokyo. | BLOOMBERG
    Sebastien Cagnon, behavior architect at Aldebaran Robotics SA (right), holds a demonstration with the firm's NAO robot at the International Robot Exhibition 2013 in Tokyo in November 2013. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. will trial the device in two branches in Tokyo. | BLOOMBERG

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Meet the latest employee of the nation’s biggest bank: a multilingual robot called NAO.

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. unveiled the 58-centimeter humanoid on Monday to improve services for customers in Japan and become the first bank in the world to use robots at branches, it said.

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