After Uketsuke Komachi’s move to the Bandai-Namco offices a couple of years ago, she suffered an unexpected mechanical failure, causing her to breakdown and become in need of repair! As she had been in service for over 30 years at that point, it’s understandable that even a robot could need some time off.

Thankfully, she was not retired!

A team of technicians not only repaired her, but upgraded her to work with a projector (hidden inside of the Mappy statue, itself styled after an 80s-era Mappy robot ) that would use mapping software (get why they used a Mappy statue casing now?) to place various overlays on to her blank features, such as facial expressions and cute little flower decals (and debug information, as seen in one picture). You can see screenshots of the software at work. The tiny little light sensors at both sides of her head are used by the software to track her movements and display the projections accordingly.