We describe an implementation integrating a spoken dialogue system with a mobile robot, which the user can direct to specific locations, ask for information about its status, and supply information about its environment. The robot uses an internal map for navigation, and communicates its current orientation and accessible locations to the dialogue system using a topological map as interface. processing, language modelling, language understanding and dialogue management have been implemented. Speech Recognition Nuance's speaker-independent speech recognition system (www nuance . .
