CityTalk Tokyo 2020

With CityTalk, robots can give information for tourists about local hotels and restaurants. The robot switches domains based on what you say, for example telling about hotels using a local hotel database if you ask about hotels, then telling about restaurants using a local restaurant database if you ask about restaurants.

CityTalk was developed by CDM Interact Oy, a Finnish startup company that I founded with Graham Wilcock in 2016. A demo and a paper about CityTalk were presented at 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2018) in Stockholm, Sweden.

This short video shows a robot starting to tell me about restaurants and hotels in the Tokyo Waterfront area, where the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics will be held in 2021.

A longer video with the robot giving information about hotels in three different price ranges and about several restaurants serving different types of food can be seen at https://blogs.helsinki.fi/gwilcock/videos/citytalk-tokyo-2020/.