Gaode Tutu (hereinafter referred to as "Titu"), who was working at NBA House and greeting fans the day before, has a new identity today: Sands China No. 001 robot dog guide.
On October 10, Alibaba Group's AutoNavi and Sands China held an appointment ceremony at the Venetian Macao's NBA House to officially deliver the first batch of embodied robot dogs, AutoNavi, which will enter Sands China's resorts to provide tourists with various guided tours.
According to the cooperation plan between the two parties, AutoNavi also combines spatial information such as floors, passages, shops and public facilities to provide full-area indoor navigation for the resort. At the same time, relying on spatial intelligence technology, it builds a three-dimensional space model of some areas of the resort, allowing tourists to adjust their viewing angles independently through the AutoNavi App and get an immersive preview before departure.
Robot dog guide No. 001 reports: from the competition venue to the resort
No remote control, no towing. When the ceremony began, Tutu walked independently from the waiting area to the stage, bypassed obstacles, and stopped steadily in the center of the stage.
Sands China Senior Vice President and Chief Resort Marketing President Dr. You Ying personally went on stage to wear the guide pass for it. Tutu immediately raised his front paws to "shake hands" and greeted the guests at the scene: "I am honored to be the Sands China No. 001 robot dog guide. I look forward to providing more services to everyone in the future."
Dr. You Ying said: "We welcome the joining of AutoNavi Tutu. This is a new exploration by Sands China to promote the integration of tourism and technology. We look forward to Tutu bringing tourists a more convenient and warm vacation experience."
According to the cooperation arrangement, after completing the work during the NBA China Game, Tutu will officially enter the Sands Resorts Macao under Sands China as a robot dog guide. The two parties will combine the actual needs of the resort to explore the application of Tutu in different scenarios and promote embodied intelligence to work autonomously in real environments.
Able to lead, think and understand foreign languages: Tutu’s busy debut
Taking tourists to find delicious food, fist-bumping and saying hello to fans, leading children to the bathroom... the work was busy and orderly during the journey.
"Handshake!" On October 9, on the first day of NBA House's opening, a tourist tentatively stretched out his hand, and then raised his front paw on the way. "Sit down!" it responded and sat down again. After several rounds of interactions, the tourist changed the question: "Can you take me to dinner?" Tutu stood up and led the way. When you reach the intersection of people, slow down and actively avoid pedestrians, then adjust your route and continue to the target store. During the 11-hour service period, we planned our itinerary appropriately for restrooms, service desks and other facilities, and completed a total of 214 independent guidance sessions. We answered a total of 4,546 questions in the face of alternating inquiries in Chinese and English, and were able to maintain uninterrupted tasks between multiple rounds of questions and answers.
On that day, the Tutu people traveled more than 40 kilometers independently, which is equivalent to walking 456 times around the basketball court, covering the entire NBA House. These fully autonomous interaction, inquiry and guidance tasks in a complex open environment constitute Tutu’s debut.
Taking up the job is not the end, long-term service is the real mark
The working environment on the first day of NBA House was not easy. Amidst complex changes in people flow, noise interference and task switching, Tutu continued to understand the needs, judge the traffic conditions, and finally delivered all services smoothly. From NBA House to Sands China's resorts, it's not just the location that has changed. The service cycle is longer, tourist needs are more dispersed, and the connection with existing manual service processes is more complex, all of which place higher requirements on equipment stability, task scheduling, and multi-machine collaboration.
Tutu's stable performance in real environments is its confidence in dealing with more complex scenarios. As the world's first fully autonomous embodied robot in an open environment, Tutu relies on AutoNavi's spatial intelligence and ABot full-stack embodied systems to have the ability to deeply understand the real world. It can integrate perception, judgment, response, guidance, avoidance and other links into long-range coherent tasks to ensure its work quality in complex environments.
"Today's appointment of Titu is not the end of this cooperation, but the beginning of long-term service." Zhou Haijing, CFO of AutoNavi, said, "Maintaining stable operation during peak hours and truly integrating into the service process of the resort is the real value of this cooperation."
Focusing on long-term operations in the future, the two parties will combine Sands China's scene experience and AutoNavi's technical capabilities to continue to iterate product solutions and provide richer practical experience for embodied intelligence to enter the cultural tourism scene.
