Now that you have watched the video, you can observe that, Siri understands what you say, accomplishes tasks for you and adapts to your preferences over time. You can ask Siri questions naturally just as you will ask your assistant,like ” Book a ticket for London!” or ” Will it snow today?”. It understands information like where you are, what accounts you have on various services and the context of the last question you asked. Over time ,Siri will improve by getting to know you better and understand a broader set of tasks and soon you’ll trust it to manage many personal details in your life – from recommending a wine you might enjoy to managing your to do list.
The current version of Siri is built for iPhone 3GS and requires iPhone OS 3.1 or later. Soon, Siri will run on the iPod Touch, iPhone 3G and additional mobile platforms, as well.
Siri can get you information about Restaurants, Airline Tickets, Events, Taxis, Movies, Local and Weather Forcasts in a very simple conversation. Siri is the first Mobile Application which acts as a Virtual Personal Assistant. Its an intelligent software agent designed to have a back-and-forth conversational interaction with you as it helps you get tasks done. The creation of Siri is a joint effort of designers and engineers pooled in from various all star organisations like Google, Yahoo, Apple, Motorola, Netscape, eBay, RealTravel, SRI, NASA, and Xerox PARC.
“In terms of long-term predictions, Siri is actually an easy bet.” – The New York Times.
“It’s the closest thing to a real assistant that you can talk to that I’ve ever seen.”- Vator News
Currently, only 50 out of the total 8,300 kindergartens across the Korea use robots. The Ministry of Education plans to provide 800 robots to kindergartens in underprivileged parts of the country tin 2010. “We plan to provide robots to kindergartens in the rural areas and encourage others to voluntarily use robots. We expect all kindergartens nationwide to use robots by 2013.”- Ministry official.
The BEST part of this program is that the kids and teachers love the idea of robots in the class. Not only the robots aid the teacher in reducing the time spent on checking student attendance, or checking whether students are active or not, but also the students enjoy communicate with the robots through the robots speech and voice technology. The ministry has designated the state-run Korea Institute of Science and Technology as a main organization handling matters related to the establishment of the system.
Features offered by the Robots:
Checking student attendance
Connect to the internet through a computer and register students’ attendance records on a special website, through which parents can find out whether their children have arrived safely
Read out “Treasure Island,” an adventure novel by Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson, with pictures displayed on 7 inch screen.
Singing songs
Having conversations with students
Recording voices
Taking photos.
Responds when someone touches the robots head, hands and feet.
Randall Scott is a retired Army Captain, Computer Scientist, and Assistant Professor. He holds a BS degree in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University and a MS degree in Computer Science (Software Engineering) from the Naval Postgraduate School.
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International Robot Exhibition 2009 has finished with a great success, this event was held during November 25, 2009 to November 28, 2009 at Tokyo International Exhibition Center in Tokyo,Japan. International Robot Exhibition 2009 show is designed to provide a place to exhibit robots and related equipments in order to enhance market awareness of new technology. At the same time, the show is to be a medium to promote new products and to develop new business through contributing the promotion of new technology. Some of the highlights have been illustrated below.
This is a clear indication of what we can expect in the near future.(Oh boy! Not another American Robot idol, The Amazing robot race, America’s next top robot model, or robot factor)
Read more about the event here and for sure visit the compiled photo gallery1 and gallery2 for more pictures.
The robot hand is capable of 24 movements and can be remote-operated with the CyberGlove Photograph: Kim Kyung-hoon/Reuters
Humanoid industrial robot 'Motoman-SDA5D', developed by the Yaskawa Electric Corporation, demonstrates its capabilities with Lego Photograph: Dai Kurokawa/EPA
A humanoid robot 'Manoi AT01', produced by Japan's toy robot maker Kyosho, performs a hip-hop dance Photograph: Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP/Getty Images
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