Mumbai-based AI startup Emotix launches personal robot for kids
The robot can hold long conversations, track the child's mood and is controlled from an app on the parents' smartphone;
- While a Baymax or Wall-E that saves the humans might not be commercially available yet, startups and investors are waking up to the market potential of robotic child companions for busy parents already.
- Globally, a number of similar robots are in use for discharging activities ranging from home assistants to senior citizens and helping people with learning disabilities.
- In fact, in Japan, Softbank’s Mobile stores use a robot called Pepper to assist customers.
- AV1, an AI-based robot by a Norwegian startup is also helping reduce loneliness among children hospitalised with chronic illness.