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[Previous entry: "Amazing reconstruction of 20-year old Neaderthal woman."] [Main Index] [Next entry: "So what can I do?"] 05/26/2005 Entry: "New Scientist article on homebots." New Scientist article on homebots. It mentions the Toshiba's ApriAlpha which I think has roomba breakthrough potential. See also: Decent article on the aprialpha. There is growing interest in the potential of home robots that can care for the aged and young children. Toshiba shares this interest, and is promoting development of human-centric technologies that will realize a "life support partner" able to work naturally and effectively with people in the home and outside, in public places. Such coexistence and interaction requires robots with sophisticated capabilities. Truly effective robots have to be able to recognize multiple individual voices and multiple instructions from different directions at almost the same time. And if they are to be real partners, able to accompany people wherever they go, they have to be able to recognize and follow specific individuals. Toshiba's new robots draw on the company's advanced image and voice recognition technologies to showcase these capabilities.
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