Posted on 11/25/2017 6:22:22 AM PST by BenLurkin
Have you ever fantasized about having the weather read to you every morning like it was a beautiful Shakespearean sonnet? That’s probably the best reason to choose UBTECH Robotics’ new Alexa-enabled Lynx robot over the Amazon Echo—that, or you’re very, very lonely.
Lynx’s glowing eyes let you know when the robot’s online, listening to your voice, and processing your commands.
Whether you’re interested in talking to Google’s Home platform, Microsoft’s Cortana, or Amazon’s Alexa, there’s already a lot of options for smart speakers. All of those assistants are now accessible through third-party devices, which is great, because quite often a smart speaker does double-duty as a family’s stereo. But why limit a smart speaker to just responding to your demands and playing music?
That’s a question UBTECH is hoping to answer with Lynx: A 20-inch tall humanoid robot that relies on Alexa for at least part of its smarts. Did I mention it will cost you $800? For the price of having eight Amazon Echo speakers strewn about your home, you can instead have a tiny robot companion that can follow you around your house relaying sports scores, reading weather reports, streaming music, checking on your pets, and even teaching you basic yoga moves.
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Good for target practice.
Paging Will Smith! d;^)
The cats would have that thing slain and laid at my feet within the first 3 minutes.
I’ve save those $800 for something more important like property taxes.
bury that mechanical spy
"...Alexa robots in the house..."
Here, Jeff Bezos, come in, map, and resell the floorplan of my house.
Excellent episode
Never.
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Kept me awake for nights after watching it. And yeah, I don’t plan on purchasing anything that powers itself to walk across the floor and decides itself when I need to be cleaned up after.
I hereby nominate that for Post of the Year.
LFOD
Excellent response! That's exactly what will happen too.
And people will be wondering why they're suddenly bombarded with stair lift advertisements because Alexa knows they live in a multi-level home and how old they are too ........
Yep
“Uh, no. Inviting something into your house that can eavesdrop on you? As bad as, or worse than cell phones. Alexa?”
After our Thanksgiving dinner, the conversation drifted into Cell phones.
Three of the adults at our dinner, who are in middle to upper management positions get so called free I phones from their companies.
All 3 told about having conversations with the phones on their desks or in their pockets,supposedly in the idle mode.
Conversations about the need to buy certain products. All three got emails from companies selling those products in a short time period after their discussions.
One of their wives before our Thanksgiving Dinner saw a tv ad telling about Apple’s new watch. She told her husband, she would like a new one for Christmas. She and he got emails telling them about the new Apple watch and Black Friday deals after her comments. That was what started the discussions above.
I’m sure that my wife’s and my Android do something similar and sometimes different.
Last year I got my wife a new Android for her birthday. We got it on line and transferred everything basically automatically.
The next morning she was crying that she had lost most of her photos.
I took her phone and in a couple of minutes, I discovered that overnight her new Android OS on her new phone had sorted her photos and put them in different categories by family, person, place and by holiday.
About a month later, I got a new Android phone, and it did the same thing after I had switched over to the new phone on the first night.
The new OS was powerful enough to do the above.
The NSA is giving them away for free.
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