The French company Blue Frog Robotics has an Indiegogo campaign started for a huisrobot called Buddy. The robot runs on Android and is designed to help families in the home to provide support in all activities of their daily life.
The Indiegogo campaign has its funding goal of $ 100,000 within 24 hours achieved, and at the moment, there is $ 40,000 added. The campaign will run for another 33 days. The robot is 56 inches tall, riding around on three wheels and runs on an Intel Atom-tablet with 8-inch touchscreen. The French company has a wide range of facial expressions designed for Buddy, precisely to ensure that people are more at ease in the presence of such a robot.
Buddy serves as a personal assistant that helps with everyday activities like getting up, the calendar in the monitor, send messages to family members and recipes to look up for the dinner. He is also able to appliances in the house that are connected to the internet of things, such as for example light bulbs, to operate.
Blue Frog Robotics wants to Buddy also what more serious practical applications. He is equipped with sensors that smoke and fire can detect, he runs patrols through the house when nobody is home, and he may be elderly in the monitor for the case, for example, they fall. Via an app can Buddy also be controlled remotely and allows users on their smartphone to see what buddy sees with his camera. The same camera can also be used for Skype calls.
Blue Frog also makes a sdk available so other developers additional applications for the robot programming. Ultimately, the robot should be 100% open source, says Blue Frog on Mashable.