NEC makes his Partner-type Personal Robot, or PaPeRo, remote controlled with Android phones or tablets. Users can, for example, on their work, via the built-in camera, their children at the preschool.
NEC has been working since 1997 to the robot-companion. Although it is primarily a research project, PaPeRo in Japan for a while under other nurseries supplied, for a price of about $ 4000. PaPeRo can include more than thirty recognize faces, respond to touch and of themselves and are charging station look up at an almost empty battery.
The robot is now also to be controlled remotely via an Android app. Parents can thus, from their work, for example, with a tablet to communicate with their child by the robot to them to drive and the in the eyes built-in cameras to target them. Also you can use the microphone to speak and they can send text messages, which PaPeRo via speech synthesis can convey. The robot can also dance, sing and some basic gezichtuitdrukkingen imitate.
NEC demonstrated the control with the help of the business LifeTouch B tablet, which is the last year in Japan introduced. This is a 7″tablet that is Android 2.3 running on, and features an Omap P4430 1GHz dual-core.