Sites and Soundbytes: Robotic Libraries

BBC NEWS | Robots get bookish in libraries

BBC article that says that there are two companies in the world working to provide robots to libraries, since libraries are "a semi-structured environment." (Sometimes we are a lot more semi than structured around here.)

One company is working on robots that would shelve or fetch books. The only way I can see that happening is using RFID chips, so I don't see that happening in many libraries very soon.

The other company is taking a completely different approach, using robots to send images of books online, alleviating the need to digitize materials. Very interesting, but again, I am sure that RFID chips would be used to find the books on the shelves.

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