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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 WizardFusion on Wednesday August 02 2017, @01:38PM (1 child)

    by WizardFusion (498) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday August 02 2017, @01:38PM (#547928) Journal

    exactly where Kuri is sending all those data.

    Why, the "Cloud" of course. Where else would it go?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 02 2017, @07:38PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 02 2017, @07:38PM (#548081)

    Internal SD card with a USB interface to dump the data.

    I know you were being facetious, but its about time we started pointing out how terrible "the cloud" really is. Convenient, yes. Privacy invading, also yes. Worth it? Fuck no.