Jibo, the social robot with stereo cameras.

So it doesn't move? Looks cool but kind of disappointing if it just sits there.

Creepy stuff . Imagine buying one of them and it hated you lol ....actually if you give it an attitude like stewie griffin i'l have 1 lol .

Those motions are actually quite charming and it could be quite useful if it has a fair mount of functionality, though it remains to be seen if it can do anything Siri can't. If anything it's a nice looking stereo webcam. I can't help but feel a little unnerved though, behind it's charming demeanor it has a indefinable malice, I get the sense that while everything would start out great it would start to delete my voicemails and thwart my plans so I could spend more time at home with my friend Jibo.

It seems interesting and a sincere effort but I think it will be eclipsed by other products/capabilities before it can take hold. I have to play devil's advocate.

Why would I spend $500 on something that is further removed from information sources than Google Now, Siri, or Cortana? I'd rather have my phone read my messages than pay such a steep price for a third party to read them to me. It really seems like it is just another personal assistant option, that costs as much as a smartphone alone, but does less and is less conveniently portable.

I do think it (or something similar) has potential with regards to telepresence. If it has stereo cameras and the connection was extremely awesome, someone could log into a distant room with a rift.

If this is the goal though, it might make more sense to have an array of cameras on a dome (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/giroptic/the-worlds-first-full-hd-360-camera) that a rift user could log into, only being fed video, for their field of view, according to their rotation. That way there would be less lag due to the need for motors to move etc.

I hate to be such a nay-sayer. There looks to be a ton of talent on their team. Its just that in the really big scheme of things, this just doesn't fit, at least not at the ~$500 price point... with the dev kit to ship a year from now, and the consumer version to follow ~6 months after that!

Looks interesting for telepresence but I expect it'll be as useful and good at what it's advertised for as the likes of Siri, Cortana, Google Now. I.e. it's quicker and easier to just type it in on your phone and google it yourself.

Why does this feel like the start of a horror movie reality... or some skynet kinda stuff haha

who needs a camera man for porn when you have Jibo!

Someone should really recut this as a horror movie trailer, I imagine it would be pretty easy.

"Twitchmonkey" wrote:
Someone should really recut this as a horror movie trailer, I imagine it would be pretty easy.

If I had any editing skills at all this is what I'd be doing right now.

Available end of 2015 for $500. So they don't have an actual device and that ad is pure fantasy, much like something else we know about...CV1? :lol:

I found that very creepy from the very start.
The reason?
"Say hi JIBO!"
"Hi JIBO! Hahaha!"
JIBO knew damn well what the request was - if I say 'Search youtube for cat videos, Siri", Siri isn't going to search "cat videos siri". But JIBO thought that the user might appreciate a joke, and in the past when JIBO has joked around during instructions considered to be low-importance, the user smiled, or laughed. But then JIBO plays a laughing animation and a cute chuckle, as if JIBO was amused.
But JIBO was not amused, JIBO was just running a bunch of functions and looking into a neural network of some description. JIBO only laughed because the user likes it when JIBO laughs.

All of JIBOS emotions are fake. If I ever have some kind of robot like this, I want it to be completely emotionless. Because robots can't have emotions, and for them to pretend to makes them seem sociopathic, which is creepy as hell. Kind of like when you are hanging out with someone that you know for a fact hates your guts, but they are being super nice to you. It's unnerving, because you know it's false.

Although if you guys want to see a pretty cool evolution of the SIRI idea - check this out. I'm still not convinced it's legit, but I backed the project for $5 or whatever just because I'm curious: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/181239886/jaesa