Meet JIBO, the World’s First Family Robot (video)

By Jim Hillier / 08/04/2014 / News, Technology

Billed as the “World’s First Family Robot”, JIBO has the ability to see, hear, learn, help, speak, and relate.

Not convinced? – check out the video:

http://youtu.be/3N1Q8oFpX1Y

JIBO is the brainchild of social robotics pioneer Dr. Cynthia Breazeal and the startup has raised in excess of $1.2 million to date.

Interested? $499 will get you one of the first: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/jibo-the-world-s-first-family-robot?sa=0&sp=0

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Jim Hillier

Jim is the resident freeware aficionado at DCT. A computer veteran with 30+ years experience who first started writing about computers and tech back in the days when freeware was actually free. His first computer was a TRS-80 in the 1980s, he progressed through the Commodore series of computers before moving to PCs in the 1990s. Now retired (aka an old geezer), Jim retains his passion for all things tech and still enjoys building and repairing computers for a select clientele... as well as writing for DCT, of course.