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Here is the toy robot SynSense unveiled in April - unlike the robot by Kosmos, it does not need an app on a smartphone or tablet to work.
Neuromorphic Robot Redefining Interaction | SynSense
SynSense presents the world’s first neuromorphic programmable robot with dynamic vision to enable strong human-machine interaction.
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SynSense presents the world’s first neuromorphic programmable robot with dynamic vision to enable strong human-machine interaction
2023-04-13By SynSense
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This month, SynSense, the world-leading commercial supplier of ultra-low-power sensory processing hardware and application solutions, unveiled the world’s first neuromorphic programmable robot at the 22nd China Shantou (Chenghai) International Toy Fair, alongside QunYu, the leading Chinese company for programmable intelligent toys. The robot, integrating SynSense’s dynamic vision SoC “Speck™”，is capable of human body recognition, visual perception, and mimicry, expanding the forms of human-robot interaction.
Dr. Yannan Xing, senior algorithm application engineer at SynSense, explained that the robot’s sensing ability is achieved through the Speck™ chip embedded in the robot: “With our chip, the robot has the ability to ‘see’ and ‘learn’, allowing it to ‘mimic’ human movements. By waving your arms, the robot can learn your movements and wave its arms in response. When you cross your arms in front of your chest, the robot senses this and also crosses its arms.”
The neuromorphic vision solution is lightweight, low-power, low-latency, privacy-protecting, and low-cost, making it ideal for toy robots. Battery-powered and without the need for external devices such as smartphones or cameras, the robot can recognize eight different human body postures. The feature has flexible scalability and can recognize additional postures and perform additional visual functions through software updates.
Integrated vision processing and fluid human-robot interaction typically requires lots of energy and computational power. Speck™ overcomes these and enables a new class of toy that is both low-power and intelligent.
Speck™’s low cost enables large-scale deployment of vision-based human interaction applications to consumer devices. Speck™’s privacy-first design, and independence from cloud transmission or processing, meet the increasing demand for privacy and security in consumer electronics products.
Ruifeng Chen, CEO of QunYu said, “Neuromorphic intelligence is a cutting-edge AI technology, and we are very proud to launch the world’s first neuromorphic toy and provide a new form of human-robot interaction.” SynSense’s Senior Business Director Hongmin Chen said, “SynSense and QunYu have signed a strategic cooperation agreement and will jointly launch neuromorphic interactive blocks.”
I had a look at this little fella. In Germany, the robot is marketed as Miika K.I. (KI= Künstliche Intelligenz/Artificial Intelligence), internationally (by Thames & Kosmos) as KAI (= Kosmos Artificial Intelligence).
I watched part of the company’s step-by-step assembly video in the hope of finding out more about its electronic innards, but couldn’t make out what was written on the chip, as it was too blurry. But luckily I then found this picture in one of the German Amazon reviews, which shows that the robot uses an ESP32 MCU by Espressif, a Chinese company. It is hard to decipher the exact model, but it looks like it is part of the WROOM series.
ESP32 Wi-Fi & Bluetooth Modules I Espressif
ESP32 series of modules are powerful Wi-Fi+Bluetooth/Bluetooth LE modules that target a wide variety of AIoT applications, ranging from low-power sensor networks to the most demanding tasks.
While Edge Impulse and Espressif are a match…
Adding Vision to ESP32 with Edge Impulse | Espressif Systems
You only need a few lines of additional code to run powerful ML algorithms on ESP32, especially if you also use the Arduino framework and Edge Impulse.
…. and Plumerai, for example, can run their people detection on an ESP32-S3 MCU:
https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2023...ection-ai-now-runs-on-espressif-esp32-s3-mcu/
… the Kosmos
needs an app run on a smartphone or tablet to work, unlike the neuromorphic SynSense robot toy.Also, Miika K.I. is actually not that new - on January 31, it was awarded the ToyAward 2023 in the category ‘Teenagers & Adults’ during the Nürnberger Spielwarenmesse (Nuremberg Toy Fair). So that alone would make Akida being involved highly unlikely, as SynSense would then not have been able to claim to have launched the world’s first neuromorphic programmable robot in April 2023.
Das sind die „ToyAward“-Gewinner 2023
Die Entscheidung ist gefallen: Feierlich eingebunden in die PressPreview wurden heute Mittag die Sieger der begehrten Awards in erstmals sechs Kategorien ...
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