Meet Miko, India’s First ‘Emotionally Intelligent’ Companion Robot for Kids
Manufactured by Mumbai-based Emotix, Miko is India’s first robot that has been designed to interact with children. Costing Rs. 19,000, the robot offers the capability of engaging, educating, and entertaining a child the Indian way.
Miko encourages the children to speak to it by saying “Ask me something”. It responds to questions related to general knowledge, basic maths, performs dances or can do fun stuff likes sing rhymes and tell stories.
Just by using a prefix- “Hey Miko”, Miko responds to the queries. It also teaches children social manners like not to litter around and can play book cricket too.
To be launched in February 2017, However, at present, Miko only understands the English language, which could be the negative point as India is a country where there are several mother tongues and accents. Emotix is working on two other languages namely Hindi and Hinglish.
This could be a giant leap of technology and parenting in India. We do not know what its impact on children will be, but we do hope that Miko helps in shaping up of India’s future.
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