Female robot used as a tour guide for Chinese art expo is taken out of action after being groped by over-zealous tourists

Introduced to offer tour guides for visitors to Jinzhou world garden art expo



Organiser: People are 'fondling the dress to see what is underneath'



An attractive female robot used as a tour guide for a Chinese art expo has been taken out of action after being groped by over-zealous tourists.

The robot was introduced to offer tour guides for visitors to the Jinzhou world garden art expo in Jinzhou, Liaoning province, northeast China.

But it proved too fascinating for many visitors who wanted to take a closer look at the robot which has bright red lips and wears a blue silk blue ballgown.



Broken: An attractive female robot used as a tour guide for a Chinese art expo has been taken out of action after being groped by over-zealous tourists

Expo spokesman Feng Kung said: 'The event is a big occasion and we get lots of visitors, and it is a lot of stress for the guides, so we came up with the idea of using a robot.

'But we designed it as an attractive female robot, and it seems more people are interested in grabbing the robot to have a snap made, or even fondling the dress to see what is underneath.

'As a result of the interference the robot keeps breaking down, and we have to put the human guides back into place.

Novelty: It was introduced to offer tour guides for visitors to the Jinzhou world garden art expo in Jinzhou, Liaoning province, northeast China

Inspiration: Organisers came up with the idea of a robot for the event that runs over the summer until the end of October

Over-zealous: A spokesman said: 'We designed it as an attractive female robot, and it seems more people are interested in grabbing the robot to have a snap made, or even fondling the dress to see what is underneath'

'It is broken again now for example, we think next year we will use a man or a more robot looking robot.

The robot guide makes introductions of the expo to visitors, it can answer questions as it has a speech recognition programme and will travel round as a guide