Jibo: The Social Robot that Revolutionizes Social Artificial Intelligence
Introduction Spike Jonze’s “Her” (2013), perhaps alarmingly, perhaps disconcertingly, is coming to life in the form of Jibo, a family computer. A family computer means that it is to be used by a collective of individuals and therefore relate to more humans. “Samantha” is a fictional character which became human as its consumer and “it” fell in love with each other. The film said that robots are becoming humanized, they can fall in love and also leave at their own will. Jibo is taking this movie to the next level, to reality. However its developer Cynthia Breazeal was actually inspired by Star Wars. Professor Rosi Braidotti has noted that this century marks a posthuman period in a sense that robots are already becoming part of the human societies’ being human. Jibo is a very stark example of how robots, literally, are coming into our household, facilitating moods and having their own agencies. Rather than being called a personal robot as in personal computer with interactive functions like Siri, it acts more as a social robot which gives aid to all the family members.
Literature Review
Existing technologies with Jibo-like applications
Robots that have similar purposes with Jibo are Pepper and Intel’s …show more content…
He is not a spouse, a date or a butler. Jibo will not demand to be so either. This can however either be viewed as a limitation or as “just right”. This reminds us that robots are still man-made and act as assistance, not replacements to humans. While Jibo is pegged as the end to loneliness, users are still compelled to face being humans and actually interact with real humans in the physical sense. The goal of Jibo is to connect people (like phones, although they can place calls independently without having to fiddle with a open and simply asking Jibo to place the call, while perhaps the user is doing something else—multitasking without the
Introduction Spike Jonze’s “Her” (2013), perhaps alarmingly, perhaps disconcertingly, is coming to life in the form of Jibo, a family computer. A family computer means that it is to be used by a collective of individuals and therefore relate to more humans. “Samantha” is a fictional character which became human as its consumer and “it” fell in love with each other. The film said that robots are becoming humanized, they can fall in love and also leave at their own will. Jibo is taking this movie to the next level, to reality. However its developer Cynthia Breazeal was actually inspired by Star Wars. Professor Rosi Braidotti has noted that this century marks a posthuman period in a sense that robots are already becoming part of the human societies’ being human. Jibo is a very stark example of how robots, literally, are coming into our household, facilitating moods and having their own agencies. Rather than being called a personal robot as in personal computer with interactive functions like Siri, it acts more as a social robot which gives aid to all the family members.
Literature Review
Existing technologies with Jibo-like applications
Robots that have similar purposes with Jibo are Pepper and Intel’s …show more content…
He is not a spouse, a date or a butler. Jibo will not demand to be so either. This can however either be viewed as a limitation or as “just right”. This reminds us that robots are still man-made and act as assistance, not replacements to humans. While Jibo is pegged as the end to loneliness, users are still compelled to face being humans and actually interact with real humans in the physical sense. The goal of Jibo is to connect people (like phones, although they can place calls independently without having to fiddle with a open and simply asking Jibo to place the call, while perhaps the user is doing something else—multitasking without the