Bidaide1 is a web service that allows the visitors of a museum, route or building to read or listen to explanations relative to the visited place on their own mobile and in their own language. The visitor can access the explanations in various ways: by scanning some QR codes located in the place, by GPS positioning (in outdoor routes), or by automatic Bluetooth proximity activation. This makes it accessible for people with reduced or null vision. On the other hand, this platform also offers to the manager of the visited site the most advanced language resources to create the texts and audios of the explanations in many languages.

Bertsolaritza, Basque improvised contest poetry, offers another sphere to develop robot body language and robot communication capabilities, that shares some similarities with theatrical performances. It is also a new area to work on social robotics. The work presented in this paper makes some steps forward in designing and implementing the set of behaviors the robots need to show in the stage to increase, on the one hand robot autonomy and on the other hand, credibility and sociability.

We describe a robot capable of composing and playing traditional Basque impromptu verses - bertsoak. The system, called Bertsobot, is able to construct improvised verses according to given constraints on rhyme and meter, and to perform it in public. Towards this end, several tools and applications have been developed and integrated in Bertsobot, including: speech-based communication system, text applications for verse generation, and robot behaviours to interact with the environment in a public performance. We describe the tools and processes behind our approach, present some early experimental results and illustrative verses, and finally, remark the conclusions and future steps.