84th TIF: A robot answers all your questions!

To questions concerning ινό Pinocchio up to ancient Greek history, "answers" o Pepper, the child-facing robot recommended to its visitors 84th Thessaloniki International Fair, at the stand of the Ministry of Development and Investment / GSRT / NCSR "Democritus».

ΤThe robot, which belongs to the Athens International Airport, was given to the researchers of the Knowledge and Software Technology Laboratory (SKEL Lab) of the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, who developed at the premises of "Demokritos" a new dialog system software, integrating in Greek and in English.

"We started about a year ago with Pepper in order to give flight information to passengers. For 4 months, in collaboration with "Demokritos", always supporting innovation, technology and research, we are in collaboration so that we can develop it in terms of robotics and of course to develop artificial intelligenceExplained to APE-MPE the current director of the Information Systems and Telecommunications Business Unit of the Athens International Airport, Alexandros Ziomas, pointing out that Pepper now answers in Greek to… always!

"We do some tests for him here in the Report to see how he responds with a lot of people, while he has voice recognition to understand the young and the old and to be able to decode the question"Clarified from her side the head of the Innovation Office of" Demokritos " Sofia Magia. As he added, a large number of possible questions and answers have been "passed" to the robot "so that it can understand the question and answer it on its own".

An important role in pper Pepper's popularity, which is already attracting queues of visitors, is the fact that he is a humanoid robot, the size of a child.

"He is a beautiful robot and he attracts people because the public can better understand technology through something beautiful and not when he sees a naked machine.Notes the Mr. Magia.

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