Robots guide nights at the museum at Tate Britain

ap ^ | August 12, 2014

[BenLurkin]

The London art museum says for five nights beginning Wednesday, people from around the world can get an after-hours tour online thanks to four roaming robots fitted with lights, cameras and sensors designed to let them move around the rooms in the dark.

A live commentary will be streamed on the museum's website and viewers can get a chance to control the robots.

[BenLurkin]

This is an undated Tate Britain handout photo, via the PA, made available Tuesday Aug. 12, 2014 of an After Dark project robot in front of Jacob Epstein's The Visitation (1926) inside Tate Britain in London. The London art museum says that for five nights from Wednesday, people from around the world can get an after-hours tour online thanks to four roaming robots fitted with lights, a camera, and sensors designed to let them move around the rooms in the dark. (AP Photo/ Alexey Moskvin/Tate Britain/PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVE MANDATORY CREDIT

[gaijin]

Combat planes

museum guides

Mickey-D workers

People are going to start having to plan their careers for this —this is the very beginning.

[GeronL]

Wouldn’t it be easier to do it once and put the video on Youtube?

[Lazamataz]

Well, this should prevent an Islamic radical from defacing historic art. After all, these robots have weaponry and independent decision making skills, right?