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are the sources of information about that environment that specify terrains,
surface properties, obstacles, etc.? What are the properties of the available
sensors in that environment?
End Notes
Invasion of the robot tour guides...
The success of Rhino and Minerva, coupled with the interesting technical challenges
posed by navigating through buildings crowded with people, has prompted other
groups to create robot tour guides. A group also at the CS department at CMU devel-
oped SAGE, a tour guide for the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, under the direction
of Illah Nourbakhsh.
