PURPOSE: To improve the service property for an article sale by providing a service robot extracting an article from an article storage section, moving to an article delivery section, rotating a torso structure for a bowing action, operating arm structures, and presenting the article to the article delivery section.

CONSTITUTION: A character robot 10 simulating an astronaut, for example, is mounted on an automatic selling machine 1 imaged into an airship as a whole and incorporating a roulette game device. The robot 10 is programmed to perform the guide function by voice, extracting and conveying actions of an article 9, or the sale of the article 9 selected as a result of a roulette game. The robot 10 is constituted of a torso structure 14, a head structure, the right and left arm structures, and hand structures. It extracts the article 9 from an article storage section 4. When it moves to an article delivery section 8, it rotates the torso structure 14 for a bowing action, then it presents the article held by the hand structures to the article delivery section 8.