

Titan combines a smart speaker with a touchscreen like the Amazon Echo Show, and it'll make music and movie recommendations based on how you're feeling. Titan AI recognizes your face, your voice and can even discern your mood. The smart display knows when you're angry.Īt CES, we saw a robot that goes a step beyond what Amazon and Google offer as far as recognition. Both assistants can be fooled, but they're taking steps in the right direction. Both Google Assistant and Amazon's Alexa can recognize your voice and customize commands accordingly. As far as the latter, Google and Amazon are making headway with their respective digital assistants. Listening and getting to know youĪn ideal smart home bot needs to know your face and your voice pretty well.
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Keecker has built-in speakers and can dance too, so it could be an awesome option if you want a robot that can essentially bring a big screen TV with it to any room of your house. Keecker responds to voice commands, so you can simply say "Keecker, go to the living room and play Netflix on the ceiling." Keecker will remember where the living room is, then it'll point up and start playing.īuddy's another friendly bot that can both dance and secure your home.
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Keecker has a built-in projector and works with Google's Android TV streaming platform. Keecker maps your home like Kuri and can help with home security thanks to a 360 degree camera on top of its domed head.īeyond what Kuri can do, Keecker has a unique twist that should make it a welcome addition to any home looking for more entertainment options. Keecker officially launched as a completed product this year, and we got to see it in action on the show floor. First shown at CES in 2014, Keecker is one of the few robots we saw that you can actually buy right now. While Aeolus is likely a long way off, Keecker is here now. Still, Aeolus will theoretically be a consumer ready product, and I'm excited just by the concept of an all-encompassing helper robot. It'll also be prohibitively expensive when it does launch. It's also huge and utilitarian, so it could intimidate your kids instead of charming them.

The big bot is still very much a prototype and it's not nearly as cute or consumer ready as Kuri. Because it can grip objects and navigate a floor, Aeolus can also mop and vacuum.

It can remember where objects go, so if it finds a toy out of place, it can pick it up and put it back. That tech should also allow Aeolus to pick up your house. That's what would allow the bot to go to the fridge and get you a beer.Īeolus can hand you objects and remember where they go. The cameras above its LED eyes can also learn faces, objects, and can associate locations with objects. Like Kuri, it has wheels and can map your home. With hands capable of gripping objects, Aeolus can get you a can of beer from the fridge. While a walking security bot could be an extremely useful addition to a smart home, I'd prefer one that can also help with the chores. Here are the highlights of the robots we saw, and what they can do.Įntertaining and helping around the house Some were concepts that'll never be consumer products - they're meant simply to test the boundaries of what's possible. Some of the robots are ready for consumers now, or will be in the near future.

Nevertheless, I was annoyed by Aibo because it's a toy first and foremost, and at CES 2018, we saw robots that can be so much more than that. You can pet it on the head, back, and under its chin and it'll respond affectionately, and all those parts also allow it to move fluidly with the energy of a puppy. It has a camera on its nose to identify family members and another near its tail to help it map your home. Sony's revamped dog packs a lot of cool tech into an undeniably adorable body.Īibo uses more than 4,000 parts to act lifelike. But as cute dogs tend to do, Aibo eventually won me over. I dismissed Aibo as just a robot dog, and worse, a robot dog we've seen before - Sony's original robot pet went on sale in 1999. At first, I was annoyed with all of the buzz generated by Sony's Aibo.
