since Intelligent device Since the concept of "smart home" was born, various smart devices have sprung up. Smart life has become ubiquitous, ranging from smart wear to a whole set of smart homes. Intelligent hardware has also become the hottest entrepreneurial project this year. Whether it is Huaqiangbei's copycat companies, or Silicon Valley giants Google and Apple, they are all eyeing the fat meat of intelligent hardware. What we bring to you today is from the intelligent hardware incubation and distribution company Roobo—— Pudding robot , a family mini robot.

Packaging and accessories:

The pudding robot is packaged in a blue circular paper tube, which is attractive for its small and clear color matching and cute large human eyes.

The inner sleeve has a variety of expression combinations, which can combine a variety of lovely expressions.

The accessories of the machine include the manual warranty, Mirco USB cable, charging plug and two motion sensors.

Two motion sensors are pasted on doors and windows for anti-theft and alarm push.

Appearance and workmanship:

The pudding robot has a lovely appearance. It has a pair of big eyes and a simple round appearance, which are pleasing. Simple color matching can coexist with most of the homes in harmony.

The big eye is actually a magnetic sleep sticker, which can only be activated after it is removed. Without the big eye, the face value has dropped a lot.

There are speakers on both sides of the body, and two microphones on the top.

At the rear are two standard USB interfaces, a Mirco USB interface and a reset lock hole. The Micro USB interface is used for power input, and the power input is 5V 2A. The two standard USB interfaces beside it can charge other devices.

There are anti-skid rubber strips and QR codes for binding mobile phone apps at the bottom.

user's experience:

The pudding robot focuses on voice interaction and security monitoring functions, that is, voice assistant+security webcam. In terms of voice assistant, we can use pudding to query weather, air quality, film information, tell stories, listen to music, etc. The security aspect is a security system composed of webcams and motion sensors, which work together to provide full protection for family security. Now let's test Let's see the function of pudding.

After the power is turned on, the pudding robot immediately changes into another face. The dot matrix screen composed of 85 LEDs is its eye. In addition to the figures displayed in the sleep state, the pudding robot is always cute at other times.

After installing the app and scanning the QR code, we established a binding with the pudding robot. The application interface is very simple, and we can simply flirt with pudding. However, this interface has no practical use, only occasionally pops up some reminders. (However, who will keep this application open?)

The setting menu is also very simple, with only nickname, personality, volume, network connection, sensor settings, and housekeeping mode, You can also add family members to the App.

To our surprise, there is a "family property gift package" option. After clicking to enter, we found that it is for insurance

We have made simple settings for the pudding robot. Now we can use voice control to activate it by gently saying "Hello pudding".

We can query the weather, air quality, listen to music, check the news, tell stories, etc., and also ask some funny questions. The pudding robot can correctly identify most of our questions.

The machine is equipped with a built-in gravity acceleration sensor, which can be used to control the playing of music by gently tapping. Click Change Song, and then double-click to stop playing. Although the idea is good, the success rate in actual use is slightly low, and it is often necessary to tap several times to successfully identify.

However, the voice recognition of pudding is not perfect. Occasionally, the confusion of "I haven't learned this skill" will appear. Taking music playing as an example, the author repeated "Please play Andy Lau's Seventeen Years Old" for many times, but failed.

The phone can also set an alarm clock by voice, such as "remind me in five minutes". The pudding will automatically set the alarm clock and pop up corresponding prompts on the mobile phone client. But the alarm sound of pudding is a bit unintelligent, because it keeps reminding me with voice: "Remind me in five minutes", can it be more intelligent in this respect?

In addition to the fun voice interaction function, the other main feature of the machine is security. It has a built-in 1.3 million pixel wide-angle surveillance camera, which can be remotely monitored through the app like an intelligent camera. It can be 73.6 ° horizontally and 58.6 ° vertically, and can rotate 360 °. It supports 1280 × 960 resolution video and infrared night vision.

In our actual test, the monitoring image quality of the machine is satisfactory, but it also requires a slightly higher network environment, and sometimes there are some stuck conditions. In addition, it has to be mentioned that the vertical angle is slightly poor, and the ground cannot be seen at a slightly higher place. It is difficult to monitor if there are pets in the house. In this sample, we Place the pudding robot on the table and start the remote monitoring. We can see that the downward perspective is limited. Placing it on the ground may be a perfect monitoring perspective.

The video effect is general under low light conditions.

In the process of video monitoring, we can do some interesting interactions, such as sending facial expressions, monitoring indoor voice, and voice dialogue. You can also send some text, and the pudding will be automatically recognized and converted into sound.

In addition to the video monitoring function, the machine also includes two motion sensors. After simple binding, we can stick these two sensors on the doors and windows. After we leave home, if the doors and windows have abnormal activities, the pudding will alarm through the mobile phone App.

In addition, after starting the home mode, the pudding will automatically monitor the indoor activity status. If any object or person moves, the pudding will start an alarm in the App and automatically capture two photos to send to the mobile phone. The motion sensor and dynamic video together form a three-dimensional monitoring environment, and the safety supervision function is quite good.

The machine also has a built-in 500mAh battery and 3G network. When the power is cut off at home, the pudding can also maintain the continuous monitoring capability. The official nominal built-in battery can be used for 5-6 hours. In our actual test, the built-in battery can still be used for video monitoring, but cannot be rotated. After we moved the pudding out of the WiFi range, it went offline and switched to the search state (as shown in the above figure). It may be that our engineering machine does not have a built-in 3G network card in advance. In addition to WiFi and built-in 3G, pudding also supports Zigbee and Bluetooth 4.0. In theory, it can be connected to other smart homes at home, but there is still a lack of corresponding products.

Summary:

Unlike most products called "robots", pudding robots mainly focus on the family living room market, and security and voice assistant are its selling points. In our use experience, both security monitoring and voice assistant have a good performance. In terms of security monitoring, with the addition of motion sensors, its monitoring effect is better than most webcams, but the video definition is slightly unsatisfactory, and the video monitoring angle needs to be improved. In terms of voice assistant, its powerful cloud data support makes it perform well, but what puzzles us is that the machine does not provide other "voice modes" for users to choose, and the default voice is really not good.

The pudding robot does have good voice recognition ability and rich cloud resource base. In terms of security, it also includes two door and window motion sensors, which together with the surveillance camera form a powerful three-dimensional security layout. There is still a certain market for similar products, but according to the crowdfunding price of pudding robot, the market price of this machine should be about 900 yuan, which is still a little expensive.