Meet Jibo, your robot companion

JIBO: The World's First Social Robot for the Home

Meet Jibo, The World’s First Social Robot for the Home Friendly, helpful and intelligent. He can sense and respond, and learns as you engage with him. More details: https://jibo.com/

Jibo is a product of NTT Disruption, which seems to be headquartered in Madrid. “NTT”, however, stands for “Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Corporation” which is, of course, Japanese, with one-third of its shares owned by the Japanese government. It is not clear to me just how many legal entities stand between that Japanese ownership and the sales and marketing of little Jibo.

Jibo, however, was conceived and created by Cynthia Breazeal, formerly of MIT’s Media Lab. The video was created for a company she founded whose assets were eventually acquired by NTT.

See my recent post, AI, robots, and imitation.