Agrigento, Italy, is enlisting a robot to lead visitors on tours of the facility. Outfitted with wheels, a keyboard, a monitor, video camera and sensors,
Cicerobot will help visitors navigate the museum and provide information on the exhibits:
Harris Dindo, part of the science team at Palermo University that developed the robot, said: "It uses the technique of latent semantic analysis, which means it can answer many of the questions tourists throw at it and have intelligent interaction with them."
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Agrigento, Italy, is enlisting a robot to lead visitors on tours of the facility. Outfitted with wheels, a keyboard, a monitor, video camera and sensors, Cicerobot will help visitors navigate the museum and provide information on the exhibits:
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An account of the Cicerobot and his outdoor cousin, Robotanic, is at http://lorenzoriano.wordpress.com/2010/08/02/robotic-tales-from-the-real-world/
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