Buddy is the world’s first Companion Robot. Buddy has been selected as one of the winners of the Best of Innovation awards at CES 2018. CES – Consumer Electronics Show is a show organized by the Consumer Technology Association. Held in January at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, the event typically hosts presentations of new products and technologies in the consumer electronics industry.
So what does Buddy do? Buddy is your personal smart assistant. He will remind you of important tasks and events on your agenda. And while you are away from home Buddy is watching your house, he patrols your home while you are away and will alert you if he will detect any unusual situation. Buddy will act as your assistant, monitors your house, play your favourite playlist, entertains, answer your call, interacts with smart home devices, makes video calls and even sends messages to family and friends. Acting as your calendar and alarm clock. With this smart companion, carers can use video to check in remotely with their loved ones. Additionally, BUDDY uses an open-source technology platform. This means that developers across the world can collaborate to build software and hardware.
Buddy robot is able to hear with speech recognition, see with human & object detection, recognition & tracking. And Text-to-speech so it will read the text for you.
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