Selling is the first life of a robot.

When we lift robots, we always feel that they are far away from us and only exist in films such as Machine Butler, Terminator, robot-like. In fact, soon the robot will come into our life. Recently, one of the founders of the social robot, Cynthia Breazeal, hopes to launch a home robot Jibo, which is now Indiegogo to raise money for more than 280,000 dollars. Supporters are expected to be able to "raise" a robot that is so sprouting next fall.

In essence, Jibo is a social robot, can identify the needs of users, according to the needs of users to make corresponding response, mainly for the family. He was about 11 inches tall, and in the room it was just enough to attract attention, not to be overlooked, to lose the sense of being. However, it is more regrettable that Jibo has not "legs" (wheels), can not move freely. He weighs about 6 pounds, and the user is easy to move. Jibo has a cute big "head", a round screen that can be used to display information or to show the mood, the body is divided into three parts, can be flexible activities.

Breazeal wants Jibo to be part of the family, interacting with family members, and truly shouldering the responsibility of a family member to help other family members. The user first connects the Jibo to the WiFi network, the church Jibo identifies your face and voice, downloads the matching phone app, and manipulates him. Jibo has a series of applications built in, more specifically "skills" that can assume different roles. For example, Jibo can be a photographer, through the face tracking recognition to take photos, no longer need to worry about the big picture is always less than you; Jibo can serve as a small secretary to remind family members of the next plans and arrangements, and as a "messenger" to identify family members at the right time and place, Pass the right information to the right person.

How did Jibo do all this?

First, developers let Jibo have the ability to "hear and see". Jibo built-in two high-resolution cameras, you can identify, track the face, catch the camera, launch an instant Video call; a built-in 360-degree surround speaker and voice processing mechanism can be used to talk to you in any location in the room.

At the same time, Breazeal also taught Jibo how to learn. Through the artificial intelligence algorithm, Jibo can learn from the family members ' habits, adapt themselves according to these habits. Of course, he will also catch your emotional clues to better understand you and accompany you.

The most important thing for a robot to enter a family is not what it can do, but how it does it. Jibo also has a more interesting function, can tell the child story. Telling stories about such things, MP3, repetition machine can do, that jibo what is different, in the process of storytelling, he is no longer a cold one-way output, but can identify the child's emotions, through the voice, action, "Eyes" (screen display content), and children interaction.

Storytelling is just a function of Jibo, and there are many things he can do. Developers have made Jibo into an open platform that can be extended indefinitely to help all members of the home. Breazea said they will open jibostore, user-friendly download other application skills, according to the need to enrich the Jibo function, to create personalized Jibo.

However, it is more regrettable that Jibo only supports English for the time being. In addition, because Jibo data are automatically uploaded to the cloud, although users can replace Jibo seamless docking, but also very likely to appear security problems. Now, Jibo does not have a good measure, only through a number of provisions and agreements on the paper to protect.

Talk so much, is not feeling Jibo very Meng, must be a Meng sister? But Breazea has made it clear that this is a man! Are you disappointed? If you imagine the "100,000 Cold jokes" Li Tianwang reset Nezha like, to Jibo up a sister's name to comfort, I guess you will be disappointed, this setting is no way to change, you do not call him Jibo, he really do not agree.

Now a factor restricting the popularity of robots, or in the emotional recognition still have a mishap. If you can't have a strong emotional cognitive ability to make emotional feedback based on your emotions, a robot is essentially the same as a mobile phone, just another more advanced toy. Perhaps for this reason, there have been a number of well-known female experts in the field of social robotics, Jibo founder Breazeal, and Professor Maja J. Matarić of the University of Southern California is one of the best-known two.

In fact, from the Jibo official website, to participate in the Jibo project is the money of Daniel, they launched the public is probably mainly to test the extent of people's acceptance of home robots. Now it seems that such a Meng, so the healing of the robot is still very pleasant. In addition, the 499 dollar price, the real tall robot to achieve consumer-grade prices, may promote social robots in the family universal.