I don't see any indication that the robot can identify a runny nose from a distance. The roughly 4-foot-tall rolling bot simply seems to offer tissues to everyone. Its face is a video screen with a simple, smiling, animated face. The embedded video on Pink Tentacle is unintentionally funny. The robot notices people approaching, squeaks a greeting (that doesn't seem to be in synch with the screen animation) and then slowly uses its one arm to grab a pack of tissues from the stack and hand it over to whomever's standing in front of it.

InterRobot rents this and other robots for hundreds of dollars a day. Personally, I think it might be more cost-effective to keep the tissue dispensers in office bathrooms well stocked.