Trends: Social Robots of 2017

Friends, we have moved ahead in social system from joint families to nuclear family system. Now a days house maids are hard to get in many urban places. In such a situation Social robots are ready to occupy places in our houses as new family members. Here is a quick look of such robots that will hit market in year 2017.

Robots have come and gone, Initial days Robots were used for industrial automation and Factory automation, Now chat bots are replacing human customer support in front office and back offices. But home robots also called Social Robots is a trend of 2017,Social robot Jibo an already hit robot is followed by Mykie, Kuri and Hub. Will these FOUR cutie-pies rule the home robot arena like EK, DHO, THEEN, CHAR friends of our yester years T.V Serial? Time will reveal.  

Jibo -'

EK'-1

A Single eye, Round Head Jibo

Jibo has already gained popularity as Home robot, envisioned by MIT Professor, Cynthia Breazeal, a pioneer in social robots innovation. This robot can be a home companion for kids and elders of the family as it has the ability to:

• Make Video conference calls for old age people at home
• Can entertain kids with interesting bed-time stories
• Can play the role of Anchor in hosting games amongst group of children
• Will greet you with different messages when you come home from office
• It can clearly identify mood swings or emotions within you and decide whether to take a snap of your's or not  

"Many 'apps' referred to as 'Skills' of Jibo are continuously getting added on to this miniature creature" according to Prof. Cynthia. Though many detractors question the need of such a robot citing the fact that smartphones already have the intelligence this robot exhibits. This robot with human like interface will definitely count in Social robot industry.

    

 Kuri-Dho-2 

The second member of this family of social robots is Kuri, an improvized version of Jibo in looks and functionality, it has two eyes as against one eye of Jibo. This robot has its own roles to play in home scenario such as:

Kuri can:

• Inspire Kids with it's emotive eyes
• Listen- has the ability to listen through microphones
• See- Has powerful camera to see and capture pics
• Learn - Quickly learn about the floor planning of your home about obstacles
• Moves around- Can move around your home swiftly
• Speaks Robot language of chirps

Kuri companion to Kids!

Mykie- Theen-3 

Mykie is a Bosch Home robot specifically designed for helping our daily needs in kitchen chores, it has two illuminated eyes and is specific to kitchen chores according to the press release of Bosch. This robot continuously chants recipes using which cook can prepare dishes.

Recipe Chanter in kitchen

Hub- Char-4

L.G-Hub is another social robot built by electronic giant L.G, It is a stationary robot according to preview available and has the ability to smartly connect home appliances of L.G make like oven, refrigerator, Washing machine so on and so forth. 

A Robot by L.G to connect all L.G appliances at your home

finally, as we can make out all these robots look alike starting from Jibo to Hub and developers have provided answer to such similarity among these robots in more info on these robots.... and they give safety and ease of maintenance as key factors behind all these robots looking like siblings! Definitely in coming years, a new family member will get added to our home in form of Social Robots. Final say is 'Kuri' robot appears to be more human like robot compared to other members in my opinion.

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