Museum in England offers a new kind of virtual tour of its halls. With the help of a robot

Pandemic coronavirus has forced the museums, galleries and other art-институции like never before, turn to the world of high technology. In terms of quarantine, when the exhibition space is physically closed to visitors, museums, most of them continue to work, I had to look for alternative ways of access to their collections. To do this, some museums have worked to create online-контента, recording videoteri, lectures and excursions in the form of podcasts and through various online-курсы, while others have turned to social networks, which try to attract the audience with intriguing content.

the British Museum of modern art Hastings went even further, granting its visitors a virtual tour through the halls of the Museum with the effect of maximum presence: instead of a person physically moves through the halls of the controlled robot with a special camera, with which you can carefully look at the exhibits, or even to look out the window of the Museum hall.

the Museum's Director, Liz Gilmore said The New York Times that the idea of such use of the robot came to the Museum through one of its Trustees, the artist Esther Fox. These robots are usually used in medicine or for interactive video conferencing, "and we thought if we have to close the Museum, it is possible that it [the use of the robot for interactive purposes] will be our option".

to Control the robot, which miraculously managed to get to the Museum before the announcement of the quarantine (this model cost $4 million to the Museum loaned Professor Preminda Caleb-Солли from Bristol robotics lab), is very simple: using web-браузер connecting the camera of the robot and the camera on your device, the user controls the motion of the robot with the arrow keys on the keyboard. The robot can not move the stairs so at the request of the visitor it raises to another floor of the Museum.

This technology is unlikely to become a mass, but as a means of virtual presence it may involve the walls of the Museum for more visitors.

the Material was prepared by Maria Kuznetsova, AI

Source: nytimes.com