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(Reuters) Nestle SA will enlist a thousand humanoid robots to help sell its coffee makers at electronics stores across Japan , becoming the first corporate customer for the chatty, bug-eyed androids unveiled in June by tech conglomerate SoftBank Corp. Nestle has maintained healthy growth in Japan while many of its big markets are slowing, crediting a tradition of trying out off-beat marketing tactics in what is a small but profitable territory for the world's biggest food group. The waist-high robot, developed by a French company and manufactured in Taiwan, was...