AURA · Autonomous Universal Robotic Art Guide

Four Khmer artefacts, reconstructed and explained.

The robot reads a tag at each artefact and the tablet opens the matching page. You can also open any of them here by hand.

Artefacts

Tag 1

Naga

Serpent guardian of water and temples, carved along Angkor's causeways.

Tag 2

Vishnu

The Preserver, and the god Angkor Wat was first dedicated to.

Tag 3

Apsara

Celestial dancer. Around 1,800 are carved at Angkor Wat, no two alike.

Tag 4

Sbek Thom

Shadow puppets up to two metres tall, cut from a single sheet of leather.

This device

Do this the night before. It pulls all four 3D models onto this device so the guide opens with the WiFi off.