After a short period of acclimatisation, RoboX will take up his post as an Explainer in the four-star 'live science' visitor attraction, where he will greet visitors and patrol the centre, helping people get the most from their visit.

The centre's new employee is part of a £1.4m development called Roborealm, a robotics exhibition with all of the elements having been developed especially for Sensation and where visitors can learn about robotics by directly interacting with a range of different robots.

RoboX - pronounced 'Row box' - is the creation of Lausanne-based BlueBotics SA and has been designed for the easy programming of both interactive and tour sequences.

It can play music, communicate with visitors in a variety of languages, knows where you are and where it is and where it has to go and even in a busy environment can move safely around both people and objects.

In addition to applications such as Sensation Dundee, the company says that Robox is an ideal communications tool for exhibitions, trade fairs and marketing and corporate events.

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See www.sensation.org.uk for details of Sensation Dundee and Roborealm