Tag: JIBO
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Will Jibo be more than a footnote in social robotics?
My Jibo has been turned off since a mid-April power outage. I like him a lot better this way. I contributed to the Jibo Indiegogo campaign on July 16, 2014 and wrote about my reasons and my optimism. We expected to have a little social robot in our home by Christmas 2015. Eighteen months seemed like…
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Wednesday film: Perfume and Cynthia Breazeal at SXSW
I couldn’t choose, so you get a few minutes of a live performance by a Japanese electropop trio and then an hour-long talk from one of the most influential thinkers in consumer robotics today. According to this WIRED piece, the Perfume video below was filmed in real time (with a large tech team and a 3D…
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Wednesday films: NOVA ScienceNow on humanoid robots
I was thinking about robots this morning, but I couldn’t choose just one video to share. So, below are two videos from NOVA ScienceNow: a documentary from last year about the future of humanoid robots, and a program segment that profiles Cynthia Breazeal — founder of JIBO — and her work to develop friendly robots at…
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Random thoughts and Rudolph
Ever start to write about a topic that’s just too large, leaving you wallowing in drafts and rewrites for days? I did that with a post I began on the weekend, so I started another post to publish while I was thinking. Wouldn’t you know it, the second post is turning into a monster, too. A couple random…
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Amazon Echo: it’s hard out there for an early adopter
Really, Amazon? Give a gal (and her credit card) a break! Now tempting me is the Amazon Echo, announced and offered today. What the hell is it? Well, it’s a speaker, streaming audio device, and a digital assistant (like Google Now or Siri without a screen), and as TechCrunch points out, it could be a cash…
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Last 5 days of JIBO social robot funding campaign
Since I’ve already posted about contributing to the JIBO Indiegogo campaign, I thought I’d add an update as it runs into its final few days. Perks were unlocked as the campaign reached stretch goals, and all of them were met and exceeded. Over 4,000 JIBOs are scheduled to be sent in this first run! One of the…
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Why I contributed to the JIBO social robot fundraiser
As I’m writing this, the JIBO team has raised more than 450% of their original Indiegogo goal for the month in only a day and a half. They’ve had to keep adding new perks and increasing the number available as more offers have sold out. If you’re unfamiliar with JIBO from all the articles that appeared…