The blue-eyed humanoid robot is called Alan Tim, and is able to have conversations and even share a joke with visitors.
Alan Tim will take visitors on excursions around a new exhibition at the museum which details the history of Moscow's 81-year-old subterranean rail transit system, called "Moscow Metro – Underground Monument to Architecture."
The museum work is a temporary job for Alan Tim, who was created by a group of engineers in Perm called Promobot, and is named after mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing, and Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web.
"Alan Tim has more than 400,000 different words and phrases in its memory. The robot can remember the names of people it has met, recognize faces, and detect a person's sex and age," explained researchers from MIT's department of robotics.
