«Breaking News» A five foot tall ROBOT tour guide called Betty will lead visitors around Blenheim Palace

Sir Winston Churchill’s birthplace, Blenheim Palace, is experimenting with a five-foot tall robot tour guide, called Betty. 

The autonomous robot is the latest in a series of tech advances in the grand stately home.

Betty is designed to seek out visitors to provide information and answer their questions.

It even takes selfies with visitors and can upload them to social media using the Twitter hashtag #bettyinthepalace.

New addition: Blenheim Palace's new robotic tour guide wanders the halls of the stately home. Betty is designed to seek out visitors to provide information and answer their questions

After spending 12 hours roaming the halls of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Betty takes herself off to a docking station to recharge.

The wheeled machine has been made by boffins at the nearby Oxford Robotics Institute (ORI) from Oxford University’s Department of Engineering Science.

The ORI has a world-leading reputation in mobile autonomy and develops machines which map, navigate through and understand their environments.

They approached bosses at Blenheim to see if they wanted to trial Betty, a MetraLabs SCITOS A5 robot.

Betty has been programmed to greet tourists in Blenheim’s Great Hall and prove snippets of information about the palace and its history.

But nervous staff are taking care not to let Betty get too close to some of the palace’s expensive and rare antiques and artefacts.

Jonathan Prince, a spokesman for Blenheim, said: 'We do have many priceless heirlooms here but the Great Hall is massive and is a safe place for her to be in.'

If Betty’s trial period is successful, it is planned that she will return to Blenheim again later in the year.

Picture perfect: The 5foot tall robot, called Betty, even takes selfies which it uploads to social media with the Twitter hashtag #bettyinthepalace

Pre-programmed: Betty has a 3-dimensional map of the areas within the Palace she can tour and wanders around the corridors of Winston Churchill's birthplace 

The robot has been programmed to greet tourists in Blenheim’s Great Hall and prove snippets of information about the palace and its history

Doug McCutcheon, front of house manage at Blenheim, said: 'This is an extremely exciting opportunity both for us and for the Oxford Robotics Institute.

'Jointly our aim is to increase awareness of the potential benefits of robotics and artificial intelligence to society in general and also to provide our visitors with a greater understanding of this fascinating and fast-growing technological sector.'

A series of robotic devices are going to be tested at the Blenheim estate.

A driverless Range Rover that the ORI has specially adapted is already being tried out around High Park, home to the greatest collection of ancient oak trees in Europe.

The team from Oxford Robotics Institute stand with their autonomous robot creation and it is hoped the joint project will also provide a chance for cutting-edge science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and outreach work to be carried out within a hugely historic environment

It is hoped the joint project will also provide a chance for cutting-edge science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and outreach work to be carried out within a hugely historic environment.

Dr Bruno Lacerda, senior researcher at ORI, said: 'Having Betty at the palace is a great opportunity for us to engage with the general public in a stunning setting.

'Betty shows how robots are now able to autonomously work amongst humans and allows us to illustrate some of the underlying technology we have developed with that aim.'  

WILL YOUR JOB BE TAKEN BY A ROBOT?

A report in November 2017 suggested that physical jobs in predictable environments, including machine-operators and fast-food workers, are the most likely to be replaced by robots.

Management consultancy firm McKinsey, based in New York, focused on the amount of jobs that would be lost to automation, and what professions were most at risk.

The report said collecting and processing data are two other categories of activities that increasingly can be done better and faster with machines. 

This could displace large amounts of labour - for instance, in mortgages, paralegal work, accounting, and back-office transaction processing.

Conversely, jobs in unpredictable environments are least are risk.

The report added: 'Occupations such as gardeners, plumbers, or providers of child- and eldercare - will also generally see less automation by 2030, because they are technically difficult to automate and often command relatively lower wages, which makes automation a less attractive business proposition.'

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Main photo article Sir Winston Churchill’s birthplace, Blenheim Palace, is experimenting with a five-foot tall robot tour guide, called Betty. 
The autonomous robot is the latest in a series of tech advances in the grand stately home.
Betty is designed to seek out visitors to provide information and answer their qu...

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