{"id":126479,"date":"2021-08-19T12:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T19:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/persephone-the-robot-guide-leads-visitors-in-a-greek-cave"},"modified":"2021-08-19T12:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T19:22:17","slug":"persephone-the-robot-guide-leads-visitors-in-a-greek-cave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/persephone-the-robot-guide-leads-visitors-in-a-greek-cave","title":{"rendered":"Persephone, the robot guide, leads visitors in a Greek cave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/persephone-the-robot-guide-leads-visitors-in-a-greek-cave.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Markes listened to the first three stops from the rob\u03bft in his native language and the rest in English from a human tour guide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI should thank Persephone, our robot, she said very fine things,\u201d said Christos Tenis, a Greek visitor. \u201cI\u2019m impressed by the cave. Of course, we had a flawless (human) guide, she explained many things. I\u2019m very impressed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Persephone is not the only technology used inside the cave. There\u2019s a cellphone app in which a visitor, scanning a QR code, can see the Alistrati Beroni. That\u2019s a microorganism that is only found in this cave, in the huge mounds of bat droppings left behind when the cave was opened and the bats migrated elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Markes listened to the first three stops from the rob\u03bft in his native language and the rest in English from a human tour guide. \u201cI should thank Persephone, our robot, she said very fine things,\u201d said Christos Tenis, a Greek visitor. \u201cI\u2019m impressed by the cave. Of course, we had a flawless (human) guide, she [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":185,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}