{"id":32340,"date":"2016-12-01T12:48:38","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T20:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/artificial-intelligence-invades-the-home-in-toys"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:00:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:00:58","slug":"artificial-intelligence-invades-the-home-in-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/artificial-intelligence-invades-the-home-in-toys","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence Invades the Home \u2026 In Toys"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The first thing I learned about Cozmo is that it doesn\u2019t like to stay put very long. Roused from slumber, the little robot\u2019s face illuminates, and it begins zooming around the table in front of me. A moment later, it notices I\u2019m watching and turns to greet me, saying my name with a computerized chirp.<\/p>\n

Cozmo, which came out on Oct. 17, is the latest toy from six-year-old San Francisco startup Anki. It\u2019s also an attempt to bring the burgeoning fields of robotics and artificial intelligence to consumers. While companies large and small work on both, applications tend to be in high-end computing, defense and government. Anki is betting toys will give the technologies a foothold at home. And Gartner predicts sales of such smart toys will grow, globally, from 8 million units this year to 421 million by 2020.<\/p>\n

Toymakers have been cramming circuit boards and wireless chips into their products for years. Mattel<\/a> and Hasbro, for example, sell high-tech versions of classics Barbie and Furby. But toys like Cozmo differ in the way they interact with the people and objects around them, changing their behavior over time as their software \u201clearns.\u201d Right out of the box, cameras and sensors allow Cozmo to recognize individuals, avoid falls or bumping into obstacles and play simple games like keep-away. But Anki says it will evolve; in December it will be able to recognize pets and learn new words. \u201cEvery input trigger, no matter what happens to him, will influence his future behavior,\u201d says Hanns Tappeiner, Anki\u2019s president.<\/p>\n

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The first thing I learned about Cozmo is that it doesn\u2019t like to stay put very long. Roused from slumber, the little robot\u2019s face illuminates, and it begins zooming around the table in front of me. A moment later, it notices I\u2019m watching and turns to greet me, saying my name with a computerized chirp. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,15,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-habitats","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59598,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32340\/revisions\/59598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}