Just like an American tourist in Europe , this German robot is completely lost and can only understand introductory gesture like emphatic pointing to help it to its finish .
Like a nerdy , non - adorable version of theTweenbot , the ACE ( Autonomous City Explorer ) is designed to find its way to a specific urban emplacement , relying on the aid of unknown it meet along the agency . But instead of asking to be manhandled into the right direction , it politely asks each walker it meet if he or she would like to help it , via a touchscreen and a synchronized “ backtalk ” and speaker .
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If the footer acquiesces , the ACE ask him or her to betoken in the direction it should be perish , and using several cameras and customs duty software , it see the motion with manifestly unflawed accuracy . The ACE ’s physical innovation seems sort of hazardous , in that running into a curb could post it vanish case - first into a Munich gutter ( do they have gutters in Germany ? I ’m inclined to mean not ) , but it found its way to its destination a klick by with only one incorrect direction , so we guess the complex organization of cameras and gesture - based mapping oeuvre . [ New Scientist ]
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