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A behind-the-scenes tour of the robotics and machine-to-machine technology Orange is working on at its Paris-based Innovation Gardens
On Thursday, Orange invited ZDNet UK into its Paris laboratories.
Orange Innovation Gardens, as the company calls its labs, houses work being carried out on machinery and applications in the fields of robotics, machine-to-machine technology and cloud computing.
In a demonstration, this robot, named iRobi, was verbally instructed by an Orange representative acting as a nursery worker to keep an eye on a man who was representing a child.
It took several attempts to get the instruction recognised, but then iRobi went to the 'child' and asked if it could read him a story. The 'child' held up the cover of Alice In Wonderland, iRobi recognised the book and began to read it.
The 'nursery worker' then returned and took over from iRobi, which subsequently navigated itself back into its mains-connected charger and went to sleep.
Caption by: David Meyer
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