[Tyler]

Vyo Is a Fascinating and Unique Take on Social Domestic Robots
9 June 2016, 12:00 am

                    The way to make a social home robot seems to be pretty standardized: basically, you cram a tablet computer into a cute robot body with some degrees of freedom and do your best to make sure that your voice recognition and conversation algorithms are as good of an experience as you possibly can, using a screen to help you out when necessary. This is fine, if you can get it to work well, but there's a concern that it's just going to turn into an experience that's essentially talking to a gussied-up version of your phone.

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[Art]

Nope! Those little plastic "icons" will surely become lost, misplaced, or chewed by pets (or curious toddlers).

The thought of having to place an icon on a turntable in order to get this robot to do anything is hardly productive and is counter-intuitive. Gotta do better. At least there are others that can reliably use voice commands.