“It is something unprecedented for them, to have the ability to interact with their robot by asking it questions and the robot answering them,” he said. “People are enthusiastic, especially the children, and people who had visited in the past are coming back to see the robot guide.” “We already have a 70% increase in visitors compared to last year since we started using” the robot, says Kartalis. The robot was built by the National Technology and Research Foundation and cost 118,000 euros ($139,000). Seventeen years later, “we got our funds and the robot guide became a reality,” Kartalis told The Associated Press. Nikos Kartalis, the scientific director for the Alistrati site, had the idea of creating the robot when he saw one on TV guiding visitors at an art gallery. It can also answer 33 questions, but only in Greek. The robot can give its part of the tour in 33 languages and interact at a basic level with visitors in three languages. The robot was named Persephone because, according to one version of the ancient Greek myth, it was in a nearby plain that Pluto - the god of the underworld who was also known as Hades - abducted Persephone, with the consent of her father Zeus, to take her as his wife.
In the remaining 750 meters (2,400 feet), a human guide takes over. The multilingual robot covers the first 150 meters (roughly 500 feet) of the part of the cave that is open to the public. ALISTRATI, Greece (AP) - Persephone is a tour guide in Greece, but perhaps not the type people are used to.īilled as the world's first robot tour guide inside a cave, Persephone has been welcoming visitors since mid-July to the Alistrati Cave in northern Greece, 135 kilometers (84 miles) northeast of the city of Thessaloniki.
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