Why do I think of a "Bull in a china shop"?
For some naughty reason, I just find the idea of an autonomous Dalek wandering round a museum full of delicate and precious objects a bit laughy-scary...
The National Museum of Australia will trial a mobile robot as a way of facilitating more student visitors to the institution. Around 90,000 students visit the museum each year, but Australia has more than four million students across all tiers of education. Most are at least 300 km from the Museum's Canberra home. The Museum …
Sure they plan on adding more human guides...just like they planned on introducing more weavers when they put in automated looms, and just like they planned on adding more auto workers when the added the assembly robots in Detroit, and just as they planned on keeping aircrews constant when they added glass cockpits and more automation in planes. Riiiiiight......