Want a personal assistant for you home? Jibo, coming in 2015, is the robot for you. The Jibo team is currently launching a round of crowdsourced funding to bring Jibo to the market next year.
Jibo is a Cynthia Breazeal project. Breazeal, who directs the Personal Robots group at MIT’s media lab, explains that Jibo differs from other personal assistance technology on the market because he draws from multiple sources of sensory data. Jibo doesn’t just alert you of a text or email, he talks to you like a person would—when there is a notification he wants to tell you about, he says, “excuse me” and then waits for a reply. Jibo also provides next-level video chatting, with touch and audio-sensors that allow him turn to face whoever is talking. Plus he takes pictures and has a reading app, so you can upload books and Jibo will do an interactive reading with cartoon images of characters and events and character-appropriate voices. While Jibo is currently just used for communication, he has huge potential. Jibo’s operating system is cloud-based and Braezeal is interested in getting developers to create applications for Jibo’s linux-based OS, such as an application that would turn on lights when Jibo sees you enter a room. The funding campaign’s goal is to reach $100,000. Contributors can get a Jibo for $499 and developers interested in creating new applications for the Jibo Network can get one for $599. Read the full article on VentureBeat here. Learn more about Jibo or pre-order your own at http://www.myjibo.com.
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