An MIT professor (Cynthia Breazeal) has developed Jibo, a social robot that can act as a personal assistant, speak, learn, and interact with people in a humanized fashion. This robot is being marketed as the worlds first family robot. Jibo comes packed with algorithms to learn and adapt to peoples habits. It can communicate in tones and cues closely resembling human interaction. It can take photos and video, and deliver hands-free messages and reminders. It can even read and tell stories. Standing a mere 11 inches high and weighing just 6 pounds, Jibo is designed as a bridge between robotics and the home. Jibo robot team is seeking fund through the crowd funding site indiegogo. The funding is already exceeded the Goal. Jibo Inc. plans to expand Jibos abilities through both in-house software updates and third-party features developed through the JiboAlive software development kit (SDK) program. A limited number of Jibos are available for preorder on Indiegogo for $499. The developer version costs $599. Consumer Jibos will ship to backers in 2015, with a full rollout in 2016.
Posted on: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 04:49:52 +0000
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