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posted by takyon on Wednesday August 02 2017, @09:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the adorable-spy dept.

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/


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  • (Score: 2) by nobu_the_bard on Wednesday August 02 2017, @12:20PM

    by nobu_the_bard (6373) on Wednesday August 02 2017, @12:20PM (#547903)

    Assuming for a moment that somehow a corporation doesn't stand to gain from the massive video archive it could accrue...

    Would you want to be the child that was being recorded, 10-20 years later? You have an hour of video of you in some archive, for every day of your life, for your first 10 years.
      Would your parents use that responsibly; do they just want to "d'aww" all day, or are they doing something like stalking you? How do you know they didn't leak this information and betray things you considered private, but that they did not, long before you were even aware of such things, and now that video is out there on the internet with your name all over it when you're running for Senator?

    I sadly have some personal experience with this, but in my case, the videotapes were physical things with no copies, my parents were quite disagreeable with me about who they shared them with, and there was this yearly bonfire festival nearby...

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