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March 10th, 2010, 14:20
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This one has been quite a long time in coming (http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/robosoft-shows-off-microsoft-robotics-studio-based-service-robot/), but Robosoft's service drone has finally made it off the drawing board, collected a catchy name, and headed off to the big world to seek its fortune as an R&D platform. Kompai is a personal assistance bot built around speech -- it understands basic instructions and requests and offers appropriate responses with its own monotonic style. It'll serve as a note and shopping list recorder, a calendar, a music player, or a video conferencing tool for when old grandpappy needs to call his doctor. If you think having a programmable hunk of mobile metal that's permanently connected to the net in your house is a good idea, look out for OEMs picking up the design during the Intercompany Long Term Care Insurance Conference taking place next week. And if you just wanna see a bug-eyed bot talk to an old dude, click past the break for the video.
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This one has been quite a long time in coming (http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/robosoft-shows-off-microsoft-robotics-studio-based-service-robot/), but Robosoft's service drone has finally made it off the drawing board, collected a catchy name, and headed off to the big world to seek its fortune as an R&D platform. Kompai is a personal assistance bot built around speech -- it understands basic instructions and requests and offers appropriate responses with its own monotonic style. It'll serve as a note and shopping list recorder, a calendar, a music player, or a video conferencing tool for when old grandpappy needs to call his doctor. If you think having a programmable hunk of mobile metal that's permanently connected to the net in your house is a good idea, look out for OEMs picking up the design during the Intercompany Long Term Care Insurance Conference taking place next week. And if you just wanna see a bug-eyed bot talk to an old dude, click past the break for the video.
[Thanks, Erico]Continue reading Robosoft Kompai takes care of your elderly so you don't have to (video) (http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/robosoft-kompai-takes-care-of-your-elderly-so-you-dont-have-to/)
Robosoft Kompai takes care of your elderly so you don't have to (video) (http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/robosoft-kompai-takes-care-of-your-elderly-so-you-dont-have-to/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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