OF the many domestic reforms hastened by the Crimean War, the rethinking of hospital design was one which most concerned the mid-Victorian architect. The deplorable state of military hospitals revealed by the Report of the Commission appointed to inquire into the Regulations affecting the Sanitary Condition of the Army, the Organization of Military Hospitals and the Treatment of the Sick and Wo...

In this paper we present Robox, a mobile robot designed for operation in a mass exhibition environment. Robox is a fully autonomous mobile platform with unique multi-modal interaction capabilities and a novel approach to global localization using multiple Gaussian hypotheses. Here, we adopt an experimental view of the problem. After the problem specification of mass exhibitions, we outline issu...