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A.I. - Artificial Intelligence (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)It looks like that highly stylish A.I. future promised to us by movies may finally be on its way to becoming a reality. A 395-acre Spanish banking center, which has no less than nine buildings and 5,500 employees, is turning to various high-tech to help greet and accommodate its guests. Perhaps the most impressive of all is its “swarm” of Santander Interactive Guest Assistants (SIGA) robots, which will help users find their way around the massive buildings. Of course, robotic tour guides have been in development since the 90s and several have already been deployed in museums in North America and Europe.

The robots themselves look pretty cool. In appearance they resemble large red helmets, and can wisp effortlessly around the different destinations they are instructed to show the visitors around. They can also sense other people and robots around, so as not to bump into them, and follow maps that tell them exactly where everything in the financial center is located. They are WiFi-controlled and operate on touch-screen technology, which allows guests to choose their language, or access features such as an audio and video history of the banking center, or the Santander group itself.

The video below shows the robots in action, as well as the other highly impressive innovations, such as the LED-panels that can digitally expand and access various facilities around a miniature model of the financial center. All this must have cost a huge amount of money, but as the employees interviewed in the video say, they wanted to offer a truly unique experience for their visitors. If the robots and all the other technology works as smoothly as shown here, they might have indeed created an environment that can’t be found anywhere else in the world—yet. It’s a model that many other businesses and institutions will want to one day emulate, though can only sit back and admire for now.


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Source: SmartMachines
16/04/2010
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