Have you ever dreamed of having an assistant ? Someone who will be able to help you at any time and do everything without complaining? Roboteam met the expectations of those, who wanted to have an experience of an everyday assistant. The only difference is that the help that the company is providing is purely autonomic.
The company called “Roboteam” came up with the idea of the personal robot that will provide services such as answering video and audio calls, showing and reading news, playing music, teaching languages, taking photos and recording videos, going from place to place and a lot, lot more. The most important thing about this device is that it is an Artificial Intelligence assistant which means that you can basically ask it a question and it will immediately find an answer and read it to you using Auto Speech Recognition (ASR), Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Speech-to-text system. Temi is able to recognise your voice and complete delegated tasks without you typing anything. It not only understand what you are saying but it also is learning how to serve you better and better every day by memorising your preferences. Artificial Intelligence also appears in face and object recognition, voice fingerprint which means voice recognition and even emotion detection.
“While smartphones keep us connected at any time,
temi the personal robot keeps us present anywhere.” Roboteam
You can ask, how Temi can be different from other personal assistants such as Alexa, Siri or Google Assistant. Well, it is simple. It is the movement that makes it so unique. Temi has autonomous navigation, dynamic path planning system and face tracking that matches the voice to its face.
The founder of Temi, Yossi Wolf came up with the idea of building such machine after watching his grandmother struggling while using smartphone because of her shaky hands. This device is not only a luxury and modern toy but also something that can actually help elderly people on a daily basis. It is also good to mention that this robot is a first truly autonomous house assistant. Wolf’s company gathered some big accomplishments since launching Temi in 2016. It was announced The best robot and AI assistant in 2018 by Mobile World Congress, it appeared in Forbes Magazine, Bloomberg, Reuters and many, many more. Unfortunately nothing is to perfect and that is also true here. The only downside of this device is its price, which is 1499 $. Some may say that the price is adequate to the quality and variety of opportunities that we get but overall we can say that the price stopes most people from buying it.
Resources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_assistant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temi_(robot)
Many people are afraid of robots and general absorption by them, but it seems to me that having a robot that just helps with household or work chores is not such a bad idea. Of course, a person can get used to what someone else thinks for him, but this is everyone’s business.