Physical distances should not cause emotional alienation.

Intelligent Home products to meet the needs of the family, but the emotional demand is still a blank: intelligent light bulb automatically illuminate the room, but can not dispel the loneliness of the heart; air purifier pumping out the air of the PM2.5, but not to miss the mood. Compared with the physical needs, the emotional strength of the figure "Interstellar crossing" in the thick of Father and daughter, can be worn out space and time dimension barrier. The little fish that has recently come into contact at home, wants to satisfy this kind of emotional demand.

In the small fish science and technology settings, small fish home in the same as a family share of the double, so that people can not be at home to see the little drops, accompanied by the family side. You can use the mobile phone to remote control of small fish at home, at any time and family audio and video communication, the family does not need any operation. Small fish at home will also automatically record what happened at home, so that you can not at home or through the mobile phone at any time to view. If the child cries or the old man cries for help, a stranger is at home and the fish will contact you in time. Small fish at home is also a reliable family assistant, broadcast the weather, report headlines, call, answer some simple questions, convenient for the elderly in the home.

Small Fish Technology CEO Song Maple called the Small fish Family intelligent companion robot. It's no wonder that video calls and records are just functional representations. They also want to do based on large data mining and machine learning, so that small fish can be like people to know the basic situation of the family and the way of the. This family is a couple to raise a child, the child and a grandparents in the United States will pay attention to the daily necessities of the children; this home to two-Year-old baby invited an aunt, mom and dad came back after the aunt off work ... This kind of scene is the future small fish can acquire at home.

In addition to small fish technology, we reported that the next year's computer i+, but also see the emotional needs of the family. 4-2-1 is a typical Chinese family model, and young adults tend to live away from their parents and even their children, it is difficult to enjoy the warmth of the family. No matter how you miss more than 30 years ago, the family courtyard, more than 20 years ago, you are doomed to not go back to the past, your parents may be gray-haired but two people each other, your child naïve romantic but can not be spoiled to sell to parents. Such a situation, it is estimated that a lot of people are deeply touched, not to mention that there are a lot of money to make a living outside the home for the elderly, children to treat the special crowd? Song Maple said a few days ago in the circle of Friends pre-sale 100 of engineering machines, soon sold out, the Chinese people for the emotional needs of the family is still very strong.

The fish at home defines this demand for family sentiment as "remote companionship," to experience and reconstruct the characteristics of the communication between loved ones, to increase the chance of virtual meeting, to give the family more emotional companionship and to promote intimacy: People can be with their families anywhere else; no need to answer, turn on the phone like Open the door home, Not for the purpose of communicating with something, nothing to see or interfere with family activities; 360 degree rotation angle, remote follow home dynamic, restore the presence of the scene; Intelligent identification of key events and real-time notification (such as children into the house, Family Circle relatives party dynamics, etc.), clear home dynamic; multi-channel real-time video call, Scattered around the family to gather together, easy to achieve remote home gatherings. These are the scenes that restore our lives online.

Products like i+, small fish at home, look simple, but there are still a lot of problems to solve, such as in the home environment audio and video transmission how to eliminate echoes. Many of the small fish technology team are from YY voice, well-known remote conferencing audio and video solutions provider Polycom, but also gives them self-confidence to provide better video, audio services. Not long ago i+ the project because of the broken capital. The small fish technology, which gained millions of dollars in investment in the speed of light in May this year, has begun to prepare for the B-round financing.

Small fish at home at the beginning of this year, the establishment of a team of 30 people, to now has expanded to more than 40 people, most from yy, IBM, Polycom and other companies, but also through the form of internal recommendations to join the team. Founder Song Feng and Kai-fu Lee are friends for many years, is a former U.S. Microsoft Xbox360 product Manager, founded in 2007 Yi City Blue Sky, to tens of millions of U.S. dollars to sell yy, as YY open platform responsible.

Although now little fish at home has not fully implemented the full range of intelligent functions, speech recognition can only be at close range, the product price is about 3000 yuan, but it still represents a smart family direction: People can in any scenario, in any way can enjoy the intelligent services, Perhaps a visible future for smart home. When we talk about smart home, we should not forget about robots. Whether a home robot is not the center of a smart home, it is likely to be a new member of the future family.