The May Day holiday is a traditional peak season for the tourism industry, with major scenic spots pulling out all the stops to attract visitors, while AI is shaping new cultural and tourism experiences.

On May 1, at Foshan Sanshui Nandanshan Forest Kingdom, the scenic area collaborated with Cloudscape Touchworld Company to launch the “Four-Legged Companion’s Forest Adventure” robotic dog-themed performance. The collision of tech-savvy pets and natural forests attracted over a thousand families on the first day, offering tourists a brand-new travel experience.

That day, in the Nandanshan God of Wealth cultural area, the robotic dog, dressed in golden-red lion robes, leaped and pranced to the beat of drums, seamlessly executing high-difficulty moves like blinking, wagging its tail, and backflips. It also cleverly transformed into a “Messenger of the God of Wealth,” accurately picking up gold ingots and performing bowing motions, drawing crowds of tourists eager to take photos.

Yangzhou Customs, a subsidiary of Nanjing Customs, joined hands with a technology company to explore the innovative application of quadrupedal and wheel-footed robots (known as “robotic dogs”) in the field of remote port supervision by the Customs and carried out multi-scenario tests.

The test application of the “robot dog” equipped with a 360-degree panoramic camera and real-time communication system, support for the expansion of temperature measurement, robotic arm, dual optical PTZ and other functional modules, in reducing the port monitoring blind spot, improve the efficiency of supervision, reduce security risks and so on played a certain role in assisting.

The application of robot dog in daily life is gradually increasing. For example, the robot dog “spirit pupil” as “patrolman” in the wide and narrow alley put into use, its task is according to the scenic area of wooden buildings and road characteristics, night safety patrol demonstration, patrol content including fire prevention, public security maintenance, etc. 2024 hangzhou marathon A quadrupedal robot was used as the official pacemaker, with a pace of about 9 minutes and 24 seconds and a running speed of up to 6 meters per second.