Jibo

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Jibo is a social robot , which the MIT - Robotikerin Cynthia Breazeal has developed with her team.

history

Jibo's story began in 2014 with a crowdfunding project on Indiegogo that raised $ 3.7 million. Jibo was announced as the world 's first family robot . Jibo, of which a prototype already existed at the time of crowdfunding, cannot move, only turn its body and head. He can take photos and videos, remember appointments, research the Internet and read texts aloud.

With the help of all-round microphones, Jibo can recognize the direction from which sounds, such as voices, are coming and turn to them. He can recognize faces and analyze language. He can show texts and graphics on his display . Jibo can be thought of as an expanded form of the Amazon Echo or Google Now .

Jibo is 28 cm high and weighs 2.7 kg. Its head is a truncated sphere, the flat side of which is a round touchscreen . The head sits movably on an approximately conical body, which consists of two parts placed one on top of the other. Since the contact surfaces of the three parts are not horizontal but inclined, Jibo can not only turn his head, but also raise and lower it. Inside are including two cameras, six microphones, two speakers, Wi-Fi - and Bluetooth modules, an ARM - processor with Linux operating system and three engines for the movements of the robot.

According to Cynthia Breazeal Jibo is Apps controlled, they "skills" ( skills calls). Initially, there would be few such apps, but developers could expand Jibo's capabilities with new apps.

Jibo hit the market in late 2017, some delay from the initial announcements. However, the desired success did not materialize. In December 2018 it became known that Jibo Inc. had been sold to an investment company. The robot announced to its owners: “If one day robots will be much more advanced than today, and everyone has them at home, then maybe you can give my regards to yours .” ( Maybe someday when robots are way more advanced than today, and everyone has them in their homes, you can tell yours that I said hello. ) Then the servers that Jibo was operated on were shut down.

Jibo's Twitter account has not been updated since July 2018 , and the last posting on Facebook , where Jibo had 98,000 followers, was in May 2018.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Markus Böhm: A living room robot for $ 500 . Spiegel Online , July 18, 2014
  2. ↑ a b c Jibo robot signals its own demise with a dance . BBC , March 5, 2019 (English)
  3. ↑ a b c d Erico Guizzo: Jibo Is as Good as Social Robots Get. But Is That Good Enough? IEEE Spectrum , December 23, 2015 (English)
  4. ↑ a b Jibo on the sides of the IEEE (English)