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Jibo look-alike appears on Chinese websites
Frank Tobe
29 Dec 2016
For all of us who participated in the Jibo IndieGoGo crowdfunding and are anxiously awaiting delivery - which has been delayed again - this Chinese knock-off came as quite a surprise....
Why are some social robots selling well, whilst others are stalled or failing?
Frank Tobe
18 Nov 2016
Amazon's Echo sales have exceeded 4 million and they are ramping up to sell 10 million in 2017; Google's Home has received positive reviews and have just begun selling in large numbers; but SoftBank's...
As Ford sets a date, Jibo retracts theirs
Frank Tobe
19 Aug 2016
Bringing a complex new product to market is an intensive process fraught with problems. Getting hardware ready for manufacturing is often the easy part; it's the software and regulatory compliance tha...
Robot companions are coming into our homes — how human should they be?
Adeline Chanseau
10 Aug 2016
What would your ideal robot be like? One that can change nappies and tell bedtime stories to your child? Perhaps you’d prefer a butler that can polish silver and mix the perfect cocktail? Or maybe y...
Blue River Technology, Jibo and others get holiday funding
Frank Tobe
18 Dec 2015
Jibo got $16 million from Asian VCs to enable Jibo to speak and sell in Japan and China, while Blue River Technology got $17 million from a group of agricultural VCs to expand product development to n...
2016 will be a pivotal year for social robots
Frank Tobe
14 Dec 2015
1,000 Pepper robots are selling each month from a big-dollar venture between SoftBank, Alibaba and Foxconn; Jibo just raised another $16 million as it prepares to deliver 7,500+ units in March and A...
Designing Jibo’s automatic speech recognition, with Roberto Pieraccini
Jibo
14 Oct 2015
Finding the right approach to automatic speech recognition (ASR) has been a critical step in Jibo’s design: get it right and the experience will be great; get it wrong, and it could really take awa...
Creating the voice behind Jibo
Jibo
02 Sep 2015
Jibo may be a robot, but the last thing the team wants is for Jibo to sound like a robot. In these two video interviews, Jibo's design team talks about how they selected Jibo’s voice, how that ...
Money continues to flow into robotics startups
Frank Tobe
06 Aug 2015
This week saw fresh funding of $11.2m for Virtual Incision, a startup developing robotically assisted surgical devices, and another $11m for Jibo, the company founded by MIT Media Lab's Cynthia Breaze...
Designing Jibo for developers
Jibo
06 Aug 2015
Through the Jibo SDK, developers have high-level access to Jibo’s audio processing, visual processing, persona and interaction, and movement capabilities. The SDK gives developers the tools to build...
Building the Jibo prototype: Interview with VP Engineering Andy Atkins
Jibo
08 Jul 2015
Our most recent video update comes from our VP of Engineering Andy Atkins. Take a sneak peak inside the minds of our engineers as they finish our newest Jibo P2s, to find out what kinds of challenges ...
Why are JIBO, Pepper, Siri, Google Now and Cortana so important?
Frank Tobe
16 Mar 2015
There's a race going on to see which AI solution providing personal assistance is welcomed by businesses, end users and consumers, and whether this will be physical or virtual....
Jibo’s coordinated expression mechanisms: Behind the scenes
Jibo
11 Mar 2015
In this development video, hosted by Jesse Gray & Matt Berlin of Team Jibo and the MIT Media Lab, we’ll discuss how Jibo uses movement, sound, LEDs, and screen graphics to communicate with peopl...
Developing Jibo: Animating the eye
Jibo
04 Feb 2015
Ever wonder why Jibo's eye was designed as a ball? And why does he have only one eye instead of two? Check out this video with Jibo’s Lead Designer & Animator, Fardad Faridi, as he briefly ...
January fundings are off to a great start!
Frank Tobe
02 Feb 2015
Rethink Robotics, Xenix, Rapyuta, Perceptron, Skydio, Sarcos and JIBO have all announced substantial fundings for a wide range of robotic ventures. Plus there are some new funders joining the fray....
Designing Jibo: Subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful
[tweetquote]What is a social robot supposed to look like?[/tweetquote] We have asked ourselves this question many times during the last year. HUGE design was fortunate enough to be partnered with th...
Jibo campaign ends, takes in almost $2.3M
Hallie Siegel
22 Sep 2014
This weekend we became the #1 Most Successful Technology Campaign on Indiegogo ever when we broke $2.2M! We are both elated and deeply grateful to all our supporters for helping JIBO set a new recor...
Could Jibo developer Cynthia Breazeal be the Steve Wozniak of robots? | Ryan Calo
Andra Keay
23 Jul 2014
VideoBill Gates once predicted we would have a robot in every home to go with our personal computer. James Temple of is calling Jibo—a new personal robot to be sold commercially in 2015—&l...
Jibo raises $1M in first week of crowdfunding campaign
Hallie Siegel
23 Jul 2014
On July 15th, Jibo launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo with the goal of raising $100,000 towards developing their new social robot for the home. Less than one week later, Jibo surpassed the ...
Makers of the Jibo set new crowdfunding record | Boston Magazine
Hallie Siegel
23 Jul 2014
Jibo has raised more than $1 million in just six days, making it the most-backed project currently on Indiegogo.
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JIBO: A game changing social robot
Frank Tobe
20 Jul 2014
JIBO, a 2013 Boston startup, launched an IndieGoGo campaign last week and is off to a rousing start, lots of favorable press, and, as of the time of this writing, has raised more than $700,000 over th...
The second wave of social robots is here
Andra Keay
16 Jul 2014
Cynthia Breazeal’s Jibo launched today and coming on the heels of Pepper, Aldebaran and Softbank’s new social robot, and Jimmy from Intel. It seems like we’re seeing a second wave of social robo...
Why social robots will change your life
Cynthia Breazeal and Jibo
24 Jun 2014
It is a fantastic time for technology. We live in a more connected world, and compared to even a few decades ago, we have vastly improved access to information and content, and have dramatically expan...
