AI Hosts Replace Kiosks at 100+ Venues
LiveX's AI City places life-size, hands-free AI Hosts in airports, stores and hospitals, a deployed step ahead of general-purpose robots.
Updated on Nov. 3, 2026 in Artificial Intelligence
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LiveX announced AI City, a system that places life-size AI Hosts in physical spaces such as stores, airports, stadiums, hospitals and hotels, with deployments at over 100 customer sites. The announcement was made at the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona; the AI Hosts are deployed and in use, while the broader physical-robot vision is still years away.
Why it matters
Traditional kiosks rely on fixed menus and cannot hold natural conversation or offer multilingual help, and many venues lack staff for personalized assistance. Placing conversational AI agents in physical environments is an early test of whether visual AI can stand in for that missing front-line help at scale.
LiveX AI City is built on NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs and combines the Metropolis VSS Blueprint, NVIDIA Cosmos and a fine-tuned NVIDIA Nemotron model, with features including interactive 3D maps, 3D product recommendation, multilingual translation and a Physical AI Host experience powered by Lyra. The source reports no benchmark figures or accuracy results for these components.
The players
LiveX
A Palo Alto-based company that builds visual AI agents and life-size AI Hosts, running on NVIDIA GPUs and NVIDIA's Metropolis, Cosmos and Nemotron software.
NVIDIA
The chipmaker whose RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs, Cosmos models and Nemotron model underpin the LiveX AI City platform, and whose GTC 2026 conference hosted the first Physical AI Host debut.
The details
LiveX builds visual AI agents, meaning software that perceives and responds to people in a physical room, by combining NVIDIA's Metropolis VSS Blueprint (a reference design for video-based analytics), NVIDIA Cosmos (a family of models for physical-world reasoning) and a fine-tuned Nemotron model (a large language model adapted for a specific task). Guests interact with the AI Hosts hands-free, without downloading an app, scanning a QR code or entering a password, which removes the setup steps that typically gate kiosks and mobile tools.
Timeline
November 3, 2026: LiveX announces AI City at the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona.
The Tech Race
LiveX's AI City sits within NVIDIA's push to move its physical-AI models, including Cosmos and the Metropolis VSS Blueprint, into commercial deployments. The source notes that general-purpose robots remain years from widespread deployment, placing AI Hosts as a nearer-term step than humanoid robotics.
Visitors to participating PUMA stores, San José Mineta International Airport, SAP Center, El Camino Hospital and Marriott and Hilton hotels can already interact with the AI Hosts without an app, QR code or password. The source does not give pricing or availability for businesses outside the existing 100-plus deployments.
The takeaway
The main trajectory is that conversational AI is reaching public spaces through deployed hosts before general-purpose robots arrive. To track it, watch whether LiveX publishes guest-engagement or performance figures for its 100-plus sites, which would show whether the hosts outperform fixed kiosks.
Further reading
For broader context on how conversational AI is moving into the physical world, see the Artificial Intelligence section.
Source note: This article includes information reported by VentureBeat.
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