World's first robot gallery guide: led by a high-tech Furby, it's hard to know what to look at

Next week Aggie the robot begins tours of Perth’s Art Gallery of Western Australia. But relax human guides – she isn’t ready to take your job just yet

The writing is on the LED screen: our jobs are ours for as long as the robots don’t want them. But no one could have predicted they’d come for the gallery guides first.

The world’s first humanoid robot has started taking tours at the Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA) – two a month, for now. It seems a cruel twist of fate to have art history graduates among the first to be made redundant by robots; they have a hard enough time finding work as it is.

Down the rabbit hole with Aggie the engagement robot http://pic.twitter.com/sGudNs0D8V

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