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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...

Virtual assistants are the testbeds for tomorrow’s personal robots

Mark Stephen Meadows 22 Sep 2015

Virtual assistants are setting the bar for the kind of user experience people will expect from the social robots of tomorrow....

Alan Turing robot makes its debut at Startup Village 2015

Robohub Editors 10 Jul 2015

Tho startups from the robotics cluster at Skolkovo — Nanosemantics and Lexy — teamed up with the Russian Neurobotics, to recreate a robotic version of the British computer science pioneer A...

Natural language: The de-facto interface convention for social robotics

Mark Stephen Meadows 21 Jan 2015

Social Robotics: The UX of Natural Language A very smart and snotty journalist told me that he had spoken with Aldebaran's Pepper system when he was in Boston. Much to his chagrin, the robot didn't ...

Amazon’s Echo: A point-of-sale even the kids can relate to

Mark Stephen Meadows 14 Nov 2014

Amazon, the largest online retailer and Internet company in the USA, sells media, data, software, video games, electronics, food, toys, clothes, furniture, and jewelry. It is a big provider of cloud c...

The death of search (or, My dysfunctional relationship with Siri)

Mark Stephen Meadows 06 Mar 2013

This article looks at the arrival of systems such as Siri, Google Now, and Watson and claims that these systems are the search engines of the next decade because they mine intimate data. Since they ...

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