Social RoboticsEmbodied unveils Moxie, a social robot to support children's development
The start-up founded by Maja Mataric and Paolo Pirjanian revealed a 1,500 dollar companion robot for children aged roughly six to nine.
Embodied presented Moxie as a robot for play-based learning that promotes social, emotional and cognitive development, with a focus on communication skills. The 1,500 dollar price included a year of content, after which a monthly subscription applied, and the company aimed to ship to customers by October 2020 after a beta programme. Around 90 per cent of processing ran on the robot and camera images stayed local, and Moxie would go to sleep if a child used it too much. Moxie became one of the most visible child-focused social robots of the period.
Source: IEEE Spectrum
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