Clever little companion

Chiba (Japan), 5 October 2016

You drive often long distances by car and have no desire more hours of silence, radio singing with or talking to himself? I'm glad that there are robots. No joke! Toyota now offers a small electronic companion for the car.

Ten centimeters and really smart

The approximately ten centimeters high contemporary answers to the name "Kirobo" and will be at the electronics fair CEATEC, which takes place October 9 in the Japanese Chiba, presented. Thanks to the integrated camera is the small robots able to look his human counterpart, as well as to interpret their gestures and facial expressions. This then gives his response to the voice of the people.

Honorable companion

In addition to the "normal Smalltalk", the robot incorporates vehicle data into the conversation and praising, for example, after a long drive. However, Kirobo can express displeasure about a particularly abrupt braking. Upon arrival, the companion home welcomes the driver.

For the time being only for Japan

Kirobo comes from 2017 for approximately 350 euros to dealers but only in Japan. But if you have good knowledge of Japanese, you can import one.

Big brother in outer space

The big brother of Kirobo, spent 2013 and 2014 18 months on the international space station ISS. There, he led the first human-robot conversation space and collected data for the early life of human and artificial intelligence on a distant planet. Is the future pretty close, right? (mf)

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