The Investigation and Novel Trinity Modeling for Museum Robots

There have been interactive museum tour-guide robots under investigation since the end of twentieth century. However, those researches are limited to localisations and telepresence with less humanoids deployment or human-touched features. This research used a humanoid robot to develop the first Welsh-based museum robots that can speak bilingual, English and Welsh, addressing the design method, constraints and initial experimental results. This article introduces the definition and development of robots and service robots with three aims: 1) to design and pilot service robots in a public educational environment, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. This is to develop a semi-autonomous robotic museum programme that can guide and educate visitors, explain exhibits and perform surveys based on a higher level of robot technology platform; 2) to perform voice interaction with the visitors and provides an inquiry and corporate branding services by the robotic programme with initial user experiences inquiry; and 3) to provide educational service robot design recommendation and a novel Trinity conceptual model and design principles to the sector based on the findings from objectives 1 and 2, for preliminary study and research on artificial intelligence in education and social cognition. Case study research method is used to lays a reference for museum robotic research, and it is easy to expand functionally, that is, secondary development; developing an autonomous humanoid robot for museum visit and interactive education.