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Introduction
Figure 1.7 5
Tour-guide robots are able to interact and present exhibitions in an educational way [48, 118, 132,
143,]. Ten Roboxes have operated during 5 months at the Swiss exhibition EXPO.02, meeting hun-
dreds of thousands of visitors. They were developed by EPFL [132] (http://robotics.epfl.ch) and com-
mercialized by BlueBotics (http://www.bluebotics.ch).
Figure 1.8
Newest generation of the autonomous guided vehicle (AGV) of SWISSLOG used to transport motor
blocks from one assembly station to another. It is guided by an electrical wire installed in the floor.
There are thousands of AGVs transporting products in industry, warehouses, and even hospitals.
© Swisslog.
