It speaks English, Standard Chinese and Sichuanese Mandarin, and can recognize and respond to 1,000 words.
It is intended for tour-guide applications, businesses and hotels, advertising, and possibly for TV-show hosting.
[7] Rong Cheng was sent to the Sichuan Science and Technology Museum to be a receptionist or tour guide.
[7] The first copy build cost was approximately 300,000 yuan ($37,500),[8] but the inventors expect this could be reduced to a third of that if 100 were to be produced.
Only one year of research was required to produce it, which suggests it was built upon other projects.