It is every boy's childhood dream to have a robot of his own, especially for eighty The only sons of the late generation have imagined their own robots for many times. They have massive steel bodies, super invincible machine guns and cannons. They can transform and talk, omnipotent and omniscient... The ideal is very rich, but the reality is cruel. The limited level of science and technology can not be realized, and it is not what ordinary families can have.  

Today, science and technology are changing with each passing day, and robots are emerging in endlessly, but the childhood dream is still not realized. In the second half of last year, intelligent hardware companies Roobo Invested and developed a family mini intelligent robot pudding Pudding He can talk, chat and watch the house. Although he is a little bit small, his ability is not small at all. Let's talk about this robot in detail.

In terms of packaging, I got pudding After the pudding robot, it was cute to be attracted by those big eyes at the first sight; The packaging box has a unique design, which is different from the traditional square paper box. Instead, it uses a cylindrical paper box. There is also a handle on the top of the paper box. Press the black position on the bottom of the paper box and pull the paper box upward.

In addition, press the base and rotate the lid of the box, the two big eyes will change. There are peach eyes, teardrop eyes, halo eyes, beanie eyes, etc. The box can also play for a while. If there are children, it is also a good toy. Here is a small animation, let's have a feel.

When I opened the box, I saw another pair of big eyes, and I was really attracted by it; These big eyes are not a part of the pudding robot, but an accessory. They are used to pause the work of the little pudding. The sleeping sticker has two magnets, and uses the principle of magnetic induction to control the sleeping state of the pudding.

The box below the pudding robot is regularly printed with various "eyes". As mentioned earlier, the transformed eyes come from here. In general, the packaging of pudding robots gives people a new experience and a new understanding of the packaging box. Packaging is no longer a tool, but can also become a toy, which makes people reluctant to abandon.

The pudding robot is a mini robot with a height of about ten Cm, width about nine Cm, shaped like a large egg, with only 326g In appearance, the pudding robot is not like a "robot". It has neither arms nor legs. It can be called an intelligent robot egg, which is more appropriate.

In terms of details, the little pudding is structurally divided into upper and lower parts. Above the waist is the rotating head, and below the waist is the fixed seat. The overall top of the body is the sharpest, thickens downwards, thickens at the waist, and then narrows downwards slightly. This shape conforms to the traditional Chinese aesthetic concept.

The front of the body, that is, the face of the pudding robot, consists of a display screen and a camera, both of which are set under a black rounded trapezoidal panel. The display screen is a 17*5 Of LED Grating light array; The camera is equipped with a one hundred and thirty Wide angle surveillance camera with 10 megapixel resolution 720P High definition, the effect is ideal when the light is sufficient in the daytime, but the experience is not good for weak light and night, which will be explained in detail later.

The base of the fuselage is made of metallic grey, and the frosting process makes the whole base look metallic; The combination of the head and the rotating part of the base is good, there is no obvious gap difference.

There is no special function setting on the top and back of the handpiece, only a decorative line is made, extending from the front end of the top back to the waist, so that the whole handpiece is not too monotonous; In addition, there are two holes in the top decorative line, whose function is not given by the official.

Two round "ears" are set on both sides of the machine head as decoration, making it more like a robot. However, this is not just to decorate "ears". A loudspeaker is set in the left ear, and a microphone seems to be placed in the right ear. This is the legend that one ear goes in and one ear goes out;

There is a label on the back of the body, which is used for marking and can fix the head and base of the pudding robot without rotation; There is only a phone access license on the label, which indicates that the pudding does not simply support WIFI The network should also support GSM It is known that the manufacturer has built a piece of pudding SIM Card, for none WIFI The communication under the network is not open to users at present.

Two standards are set at the back of the base USB Socket, one Micro USB Charging socket and one Reset Reset hole; Two USB The function of the socket is not clearly specified by the official, but only because USB Charging function, maybe one day in the future, these two USB The mouth will play more functions; Reset The reset hole is mainly used for power off and reset functions, which lasts one Seconds release means shutdown, continuous ten Second is reset.

The bottom of the pudding robot is equipped with a circle of black anti-skid foot pads, which can effectively prevent the problem of unstable placement of pudding; The middle is printed with product information and the QR code identification of the machine. When associating and binding the pudding robot, you need to scan the QR code with your mobile phone; In addition, there is a line below the label“ WCDMA "Wireless data terminal", which is consistent with the previous network access license, again indicating that the pudding robot supports WCDMA For mobile data connection.

In terms of accessories, the pudding robot comes with power adapter, power cord, manual, warranty card, sleeping magnet, two motion sensors and matching adhesive pad.

The pudding robot is equipped with DC 5V-2000mA Standards of USB The power adapter is common to the traditional mobile phone charger. The pudding robot can also use the mobile phone charger to supply power, but the output current needs 1A above; In addition, the pudding robot has a built-in 450mA Lithium battery, when the power supply is disconnected, the PTZ cannot be used. It can be seen that the power consumption of PTZ is relatively large, and it can be used theoretically in standby mode 5-6 Hours.

The pudding robot has two special accessories, named "Budong", which are two movement sensors used to detect the opening and closing of doors, windows and drawers; The pudding robot can be bound with multiple "cloth drums" to realize the safety monitoring of family doors, windows and drawers; Use one piece of "Budong" CR2450 The large button battery is also easy to replace.

APP In terms of pudding robot, it uses its own special "pudding" APP ”, matching the APP , can realize home care, remote video, home security functions, and the software itself is a small game. Click or slide the small robot in the middle, there will be different action responses, a little similar to Tom Cat's small game.

Pudding APP The first main function is remote function, which can realize remote video monitoring, PTZ control, video screenshot, voice dialogue, facial expression sending, text reading and other functions; Most commendable three hundred and sixty ° Rotate the PTZ to make it easy to watch the house and find the target. Unfortunately, the camera only rotates horizontally and cannot swing up and down, so the view range is always insufficient.  

APP There are also four Function buttons, teaching Ta The speaking function enables pudding to learn specific dialogue Ta Say the answer you want; The voice message and text reading functions are relatively common, and there are not too many highlights; My skill is a skill display function. Clicking the big icon inside can control the robot on the phone screen to make different actions, while the pudding robot has no response.

Watching the house is a great skill of pudding robot. There are two ways to open the watching mode, one is to open and close it regularly, the other is manual mode; Both modes need to be set in the general settings, and there is no shortcut button on the home page; The pudding robot is mainly used to watch the house in two ways. One is to detect the changes of images in the field of vision in real time through the dynamic detection of the camera to judge the abnormal situation in the home. The other is to sense the changes of doors and windows through the cloth sensor; Both detection results will be notified in the system message alarm. The difference is that the dynamic image detection will give a screenshot, while Budong is just a message.

In addition, the pudding robot also came with a family property insurance package, with the maximum amount of protection up to two 10000 yuan / Household. For this insurance, it is really necessary to apply for this property insurance if you really rely on pudding robots to watch your home, because sometimes pudding robots are really unreliable.

The pudding robot also has a personality setting. Under the "serious" personality, the little pudding will be very "civilized" and "formal" to talk and chat. If it accompanies the elderly and children, it is recommended to choose a serious personality; The little pudding under the "Doubi" character is more suitable for young people. It will be more interesting to talk and chat, and there will be many meaningful jokes, which will have misleading guidance for children.

In terms of experience, pudding robot has good speech recognition ability, and it can recognize as long as it speaks Mandarin; In addition, when the pudding robot is talking, it will display rich expressions, which brings endless fun to the conversation and chat.

The pudding robot not only has a rich expression display, but also has a display of the existing state. With the sound prompt, it can easily understand the current state of the pudding robot; above six The medium status display is only captured by the author, in addition, there are power off instructions, shutdown instructions, etc.

Finally, after several days of probation, I have chatted with little pudding every day, which seems to be a habit. When I ask about the weather and the time, little pudding can answer accurately, sing a song and make fun of each other. Little pudding also has to use his hands. When I go to work, I secretly look at what people are doing at home, and then make a face and say something, which is also a joy. However, it is a robot after all. It doesn't answer the questions. It often happens when it is out of control. Here are the feelings and suggestions for using it for several days:

1、   In terms of speech recognition and dialogue, it is still necessary to further improve the recognition ability and add more voice resources, so that the pudding is really becoming a robot that knows astronomy, geography, ancient and modern times and knows everything, providing us with more services;

2、   Tap the head of the small pudding, and the control playback is not sensitive enough. Since the small pudding does not have an elastic structure as a whole, when tapping the head of the small pudding, there will not be enough vibration amplitude. It is recommended to change to head touch control;

3、   The speaker of the little pudding is not perfect, and the sound quality is average. I hope to put both ears on the speaker to make it a dual channel, which will sound better;

4、   The small pudding does not have the video recording function, which greatly reduces the playability of the pudding robot. It is hoped that the recording function can be added later;

5、   Two small pudding sets USB The interface does not have substantive functions. I hope it can be improved as soon as possible to make it a universal extension interface and access more USB Equipment;

6、   The security function of watching at home still needs to be optimized. The detected abnormalities cannot be sent to the mobile phone in a timely manner. It is recommended to add SMS reminder, WeChat reminder and other reminder modes. At the same time, the night vision capability of the camera is basically zero at present, and it is hoped to add night vision capability;

A few sheets are attached at the end six The group photo of my son, who is six months old, and little pudding is very good for teasing the child, but it seems that my son has finished it.