With the accelerated pace of life and the busy business, can you imagine how many times you have gone home late at night and your children have fallen asleep? How many times do you go out in the morning, and your children are still dreaming? How many times have you promised to play with your children, but you have broken your promise again and again? In the pursuit of a happy life, these children become "excuse me".

Recently, the concept of robot has become more and more popular, and children's intelligent companion robots and other products have gradually emerged in our lives. Here, the author introduces an educational companion robot, Xiaoxi Children's Robot, which is independently developed and produced by Shenzhen Xiaoxi Technology. It integrates children's education, video chat, parent-child entertainment, remote monitoring and other functions, and is a fun learning partner for exclusive children.

By comparison, most of the current preschool education hardware only presents stories and nursery rhymes electronically through different means such as sound and light, while the real meaning of children's intelligent companion robots is embodied in intelligence and interaction. The XIUI system developed by Xiaoxi Children's Robot based on Android 4.4 has built-in excellent children's education resources and one button video chat function specially developed for children, and the built-in sports module can interact with a family for entertainment (not supported by the desktop version).

Due to the thin plastic inner support and a certain amount of the machine itself, the inner support has broken after long distance transportation. Fortunately, the machine itself has not been affected. However, it is suggested that Xiaoxi Technology replace the internal protection support materials during mass production.

The accessories of Xiaoxi Children's Robot (desktop version) are relatively simple, including a power adapter with 5V 1.0A output, a USB charging cable about one meter long, and a user manual. Only equipped with a 1.0A charging head, the author was worried about Xiaoxi's charging efficiency when he opened the box.

Due to the unique design of the screen, it is not easy to buy a film of this size outside. Fortunately, Xiaoxi Technology presented a high-definition film as a gift when it left the factory, eliminating the fear of not finding the film.

As a special robot for children, first of all, it must be loved by children in appearance. Xiaoxi Technology has made great efforts in this regard, and invited designers from the German Red Dot Award to design and apply the cute kitten appearance to the cold machine. At the same time, in terms of production and process, Xiaoxi Science and Technology has deeply cooperated with Foxconn to select safe, non-toxic and environmentally friendly materials to ensure the healthy growth of children from the most basic part.

Xiaoxi's two rose red ears are made of soft plastic material, so as not to hurt the children. At the same time, the two ears are equipped with LED light sources, which will light up when charging. When the power supply is insufficient, it will display red, full of real green.

The cat's small mouth is actually a return/home button, with LED light source like the small ear, and the light is consistent with the ear.

Xiaoxi's forehead is 200W pixels from left to right, supporting the front camera, light sensor and distance sensor of 480P video. Why do you need to install two sensors similar to mobile phones? Because Xiaoxi has an eye protection mode, 25cm is the healthy distance between the child's eyes and the screen. When the distance between the child's eyes and the screen is less than 25cm and lasts for 3 seconds, the system will automatically turn off the screen to protect the eyes and turn off the sound, and at the same time, the ears of Xiaoxi's robot will light up red for warning.

The back of Xiaoxi robot adopts white skin like materials, which makes it feel fine and comfortable. At the same time, a physical power key and a rear camera with the same 200W pixel are set. A small hole above the power key is a microphone, and the speaker is designed as a long strip.

The cute little tail is very interesting and makes people want to touch it. Under the tail, the cat's private part is a Micro USB charging interface.

The small west in my hand is a desktop version, and the base is very powerful, enough to support the cat's big head, and the small feet are designed with anti-skid pads. The earlier version of Xiaoxi Robot also supports TF/SIM card, but it may be that the manufacturer gave up the idea that it is unnecessary, but the card installation position is still reserved. It is estimated that mass production will not appear again.

The cat's neck is designed to be able to manually adjust the elevation angle of 25-30 degrees up and down, which has the advantage that the visual experience of the screen will not be affected whether the child is standing or sitting.

Long press the power button on the back of Xiaoxi's head to turn on Xiaoxi. Similar to many mobile phones and tablet products, Xiao Xi also added his own logo on the boot interface, and the boot speed is fast. Xiaoxi Robot has built in the XIUI system developed based on Android 4.4. The system is deeply streamlined and optimized, and the first boot setting is also very simple. Just select and connect the Wifi to enter the system page.

XIUI The system is really simple. It is hard to see the traces of Android system even if it is simple. Without the setting menu of Android system, image library, camera, application store, etc., the system is extremely simplified, and the advantage is that the system can be smooth enough. The system page only has its own Bewa Morning Church for children's education, cool dog music for listening to music, Taijie video for watching videos, and Sogou browser for browsing the web. There are no redundant built-in applications.

XIUI The cumbersome settings of Android system are removed, and only the basic settings of brightness, volume, sleep time, network settings, and voice settings are left in the settings of Xiaoxi, which also reduces the learning costs of children or the elderly.

In terms of configuration, Xiaoxi Robot adopts 7-inch IPS high-definition display, MTK 4-core 1.3GHz processor, 1G RAM, 8G ROM. Although the hardware configuration is not outstanding, thanks to the highly simplified and optimized system, it can still maintain a very good smoothness, and there is no jam, crash, etc. in actual operation.

As a robot focusing on children's education, Xiaoxi has built a Bewa early education church in terms of resources. The APP integrates six major children's education columns, namely, baby literacy, basic Chinese culture, good habit formation, scientific exploration, thinking training, and English paradise. Each column is composed of many children who are very happy to see educational animation clips, which is more suitable for children under 6 years old to learn and try. If some educational resources adapted to different age groups are developed by small western science skills, it may bring more user groups. Fortunately, XIPLAY Children's App Store developed by Xiaoxi Technology will be launched soon, and will provide more excellent educational resources.

Another very important function of Xiaoxi is one button video. Of course, this function can only be used with mobile APP. In the future, parent-child communication must be face-to-face communication, not limited to voice and pictures. Xiaoxi Technology specially develops one click video chat function for children. A child can initiate a video chat with his/her father and mother on the mobile phone by clicking the avatar icon on the home page of the system. At the same time, parents' mobile phones can also launch a video chat on Xiaoxi with one button, and can automatically turn on the camera for monitoring when it is not connected for more than 5 seconds. This is the monitoring function of Xiaoxi child robot, which can monitor children's entertainment time and occasionally monitor.

In addition to launching one button video with Xiaoxi Robot, Xiaoxi Mobile APP can also make an appointment on the time when children get up, eat, brush teeth and wash their faces, and cooperate with Xiaoxi Robot to supervise children, so as to achieve the goal of forming good habits.

As a robot, man-machine conversation entertainment is also an essential function. Xiaoxi robot has built-in voice assistant function. In the black screen state, just say "Hello Xiao Xi" to activate. Like the voice assistant on the mobile phone, sometimes it will bring very interesting conversations to pass the boredom. If Xiaoxi encounters a problem that cannot be answered, he will directly open the Baidu query page of the system browser to guide the child to query by himself. Of course, for this voice assistant, the author thinks that if the stiff voice can be made a little childish and cute, children may be more willing to communicate with it.

Finally, let's talk about the endurance performance of Xiaoxi's child robot. Xiaoxi has its own 4000wAh battery capacity. For a tablet with a screen up to 7 inches, the battery capacity is really a bit stretched, and the actual video viewing can only last for 2 hours. In addition, since Xiaoxi's speakers and sensors still work in the rest screen state, Xiaoxi's standby performance is relatively ordinary, which can only reach about 24 hours. Due to the use of power adapter with output of only 1A, Xiaoxi's filling time takes 5-6 hours, which is really disappointing. Of course, as a desktop robot, the author still suggests that the power of Xiaoxi robot should be kept connected.

Summary:

As a robot dedicated to children's education and companionship, Xiaoxi uses the resource advantages of a very mature Android system platform to integrate some children's education resources. At the same time, it has developed a one button video chat function for children, which can not only accompany but also monitor. In addition, through in-depth cooperation with Foxconn, Xiaoxi Technology has shown good performance in product appearance design and process level. It is a product that people can like at a glance. Of course, Xiaoxi's child robot also has many shortcomings, such as insufficient educational resources, too rigid voice of the voice assistant, intelligence to be strengthened, insufficient performance of endurance, etc. It still needs to be further optimized and updated by Xiaoxi Technology.