Visitors to the National Museum of American History in Washington DC are
being shown around by a robot called Minerva. Visitors ask questions via a
touch-screen display on the robot’s back and Minerva talks back to them. It uses
a combination of cameras and infrared sensors to constantly map its environment
and avoid hitting unpredictable objects, such as people.
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