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News McKinney library has robots to help staff, customers The John and Judy Gay Library is the first in the state to use them on the library floor, staff says.
A Connecticut library has acquired two fully-automated, walking, talking robots to provide independent assistance to its patrons.
A robot named Bibli is seen at the Longmont Library on Monday. The robot was built in a collaboration between the Longmont Public Library and ROBAUTO, a robotics engineering firm. Bibli was ...
There will be a new presence weaving its way among the Longmont Public Library bookshelves before the end of the year, if Jalali Hartman and his cadre of engineers have anything to say about it.
Since the robots’ acquisition, the Westport Library has been featured on television and radio programs worldwide. The attention has been wonderful, Bleiweis said, but in some ways a surprise.
At new University of Chicago library, five underground robot cranes help fetch your books from storage bins in the vault.
The shelves are bursting, but a robotic-retrieval system keeps bound volumes from being exiled from the University of Chicago’s new library.
After launching the robots on October 11th, the library will hold workshops teaching visitors to use the Nao software, including an introduction to Python.
Beyond bookshelves: Meet your public library’s robots The Westport, Ct. library has two robots that patrons can learn how to program.
The Chicago Public Library has more than books for borrowing. It now has a fleet of 500 robots available for checkout.
Click here if you are having trouble viewing the slideshow on a mobile device. MOUNTAIN VIEW — Only in Silicon Valley will a robot return your library books for you. Residents in downtown ...
They can recognize faces, speak in 19 languages, even do tai chi. One Connecticut library will be using these toddler-sized robots to teach patrons coding and programming skills.