How would you like to own a personal assistant robot for only $499? Jibo, which almost look like Eve from Wall-E, is an eleven-inch tall, six-pound robot that can be your photographer when you have a party at home, read stories to your children, order you a pizza, or shop online. And more is possible as it learns and adapts to your needs. The project has received huge support with now almost $1 million funding from the public through Indiegogo, way ahead of its original goal of $100,000. It may take awhile before we see the arrival of this little android. It will start to be shipped starting fall of 2015.
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 24 2014, @08:22AM
Personal assistant by day, personal vibrator by night. Expect amateur porn selfies of this thing, starting fall of 2015.
(Score: 1) by speling on Thursday July 24 2014, @09:05AM
Surely "anything" can and will be used for sexual plaesure. Oh and there will be video of it to prove it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 24 2014, @05:22PM
Indeed. My mind quickly went to the South Park episode in which Cartman passes himself off to Butters as AWSOM-O
Whatever can be used for sex, will be used for sex.
(Score: 3, Informative) by wonkey_monkey on Thursday July 24 2014, @09:01AM
Capitalisation aside, that's no android [wikipedia.org]. Personally I'd hesitate to even call it a robot, given that it doesn't appear to interact with the physical world, unless you'd count knocking things over as it turns.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Thursday July 24 2014, @09:33AM
Yeah, I'm not really sure what this thing can achieve that a phone in a dock couldn't. It sounds to me like a very expensive skin for siri, with some face recognition software tacked on for no well-defined reason.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Thursday July 24 2014, @09:59AM
OK, watched the video, I can see what they envision for the face rec. However I reserve judgement until I actually see a working model in real conditions. The video reminded me of a Peter Molyneux project (any of them really, all the way from Powermonger up, but in particular this one: https://www.ted.com/talks/peter_molyneux_demos_milo_the_virtual_boy [ted.com]) - all breathless promises of groundbreaking AI and this time you will really be convinced it's a person, and in the end you might get a nifty product, but there's no way it could ever live up to the hype.
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Thursday July 24 2014, @12:12PM
I don't think the thing can even move, just swivel about its base...what good is that? Hell we had a robot in the early 80s [theoldrobots.com] who had more range of motion than this thing. So I have to vote for "Sirir in a cut container" as well as that is all it really seems to be.
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(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Thursday July 24 2014, @05:36PM
It's not really overpriced even if it is just a "phone in a dock". A brand new iPhone or Galaxy is gonna cost around $600, and a dock like this with all the servos and sensors would probably be a couple hundred too. It may be useless, but the price isn't that bad considering what it does.
They probably *should have* made it just a phone dock though. Slap your iPhone or Android in there, or maybe tether via bluetooth, and then use Siri/S-Voice/whatever to actually do the voie processing, maybe a custom app or two to control movement. Would still have ended up costing a couple hundred buck though, since even the most basic docks can break $100, and this is quite a bit more complex with all the motors and such.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 24 2014, @10:00AM
OT: Capitalization corrected; continue conversation.
Carefully complete correspondence considering common characters can corrupt concentration. =)
(Score: 1) by Horse With Stripes on Thursday July 24 2014, @10:40AM
Sounds like you've just described one of my cats ... and one of my neighbors as well.
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Thursday July 24 2014, @11:20AM
It interacts vocally, at least.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 24 2014, @03:39PM
How is this robot going to photograph anything except upskirt shots? At eleven inches tall it's barely more capable a photographer than a Roomba. I don't think a robot this size will ever roam my house as a photographer for family parties.
(Score: 2) by WizardFusion on Thursday July 24 2014, @03:45PM
I suppose it depends on the type of parties you have
(Score: 3, Informative) by umafuckitt on Thursday July 24 2014, @05:07PM
It appears to have no means of propulsion, so it's placed on a table. Hence, no up-skirt shots.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 25 2014, @12:37AM
Cannot run without connecting to our "cloud". When we go under in 6 months, you'll have a paperweight. In the mean-time, all those pictures you're taking belong to us.