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The Alistrati Cave in northern Greece has a new tour guide, but probably not the kind you're used to.
Persephone, a robot with a white body, black head and two glowing eyes has been welcoming visitors to the cave since mid-July.
It takes visitors through the first 150 meters of the cave and is able to give its part of the tour in 33 languages, and talk with visitors in three languages. It can also answer 33 questions, but only in Greek.
A human guide then takes visitors through the remaining 750 meters of the 3 million-year-old cave.
Nikos Kartalis, the scientific director for the Alistrati cave, had the idea of creating the robot tour guide when he saw one on TV taking visitors around an art gallery. It was built by the National Technology and Research Foundation and cost $139,000.
"People are enthusiastic, especially the children, and people who had visited in the past are coming back to see the robot guide," Kartalis told The Associated Press.
"I should thank Persephone, our robot, she said very fine things," said Christos Tenis, a Greek visitor. "Of course, we had a flawless [human] guide, she explained many things. I'm very impressed."
Evdokia Karafera, one of the tour guides who works with Persephone, said that visitors are fascinated by the robot. However, she believes that while robots will take over a lot of jobs, they will never replace human guides.

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機器人Persephone是希臘艾里斯楚洞穴的新導覽員。它從七月中旬就開始接待洞穴的參觀者。這個機器人導覽員帶領參觀者通過洞穴前150公尺的距離，能夠以33種語言進行部分導覽，並以3種語言和遊客對談。 它也能夠用希臘文回答33個問題。剩餘的750公尺，則會由人類導覽員帶領遊客欣賞歷經三百萬年風霜的歷史洞穴。艾里斯楚洞穴的科學總監表示，他是在電視上看到機器人帶領遊客參觀藝廊時，萌生打造導覽洞穴機器人的想法。

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cave洞穴
tour guide導遊
glow發光

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Article: Engoo Daily News
(https://engoo.com.tw/app/daily-news/article/meet-persephone-the-robotic-tour-guide/nYPXpgEDEey_k6t_rgcl6w)
(https://engoo.com.tw/)
Picture: JUPE Design + Canva
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