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If you're a parent, you probably dread the thought of missing an important moment in your child's life. Do you really want to be in the other room when your little one takes those first steps? Mayfield Robotics thinks it can be there even when you can't. It's adding yet another feature to its upcoming Kuri home robot that will record moments independently. The tiny companion will use a mix of machine learning and image recognition to determine when it should start capturing video, using your preferences as a guide. Ideally, this will catch your kids' playtime or an impromptu dance party without asking you to lift a finger -- and the more it records, the more it should understand your tastes.
It's easy to be skeptical of the Vision feature, since it's hard to know just how well this will work or what Kuri will consider a video-worthy moment. Is it going to capture occasions you'll cherish forever, or is it going to record your vacuuming? You can specify when and where Kuri is allowed to record, so it shouldn't immortalize anything scandalous, but you may end up with a lot of mundane footage on your hands.
Source: https://www.engadget.com/2017/08/01/kuri-vision/
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Virindi on Wednesday August 02 2017, @10:33AM (3 children)
I would more dread the thought of every moment of my child's life being recorded and parsed by big, unaccountable entities. Getting footage of baby's first steps is minor in comparison.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 02 2017, @12:43PM
Yeah, somehow humans managed to get along for thousands of years without recording the first steps of their children.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 02 2017, @01:57PM (1 child)
Given how freely people already upload this sort of thing to Facebook, I think we're in the minority.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 02 2017, @07:33PM
Yup, people are idiots. Had a couple who I told not to post their baby's pics on FB and they are anti-tech hippy types who were all like "yeah yeah of course!" Turns out they were humoring me, and now their baby's first years of life will be recorded and owned by FB. People are idiots, people are lazy, convenience totally wins. I guess it is way beyond most people to understand they are contributing to the downfall of society and giving tacit acceptance of the surveillance state.