In the boom of intelligent hardware development, you and I may not have noticed the existence and reproduction of some small domestic robots: Vortex programming robot Xiaoguang children's intelligent robots, Xiaoxi robots, Xiaoteng robots, Xiaoyi robots, childe Xiaobai robots, as well as various interactive toys and High Bigger's Home A.I. intelligent robots (I know a lot), have sprung up one after another.

What I want to introduce to you today is that the domestic entrepreneurial team Roobo successfully raised a Pudding pudding family mini robot in JD. This is an intelligent hardware product that integrates life services, entertainment, safety monitoring and other functions. Its positioning is to become a partner of modern families in home life. We are also very grateful to Hard Egg for providing us with the opportunity to test this pudding Pudding robot, so that we intelligent hardware enthusiasts can also feel the fun of this kind of "toy". In the following, I will talk about the utility and entertainment of this kind of robot and whether it should be your choice.

To begin with, I liked this pudding a long time ago and got the opportunity to experience it on Lei Feng's trial platform. Unfortunately, I had no time to give it up. This time, I met the pudding again. It seems that there is an inextricable fate between you and me. Please treasure it.

▼ Appearance packaging

A blue cylindrical packing box is its coat. If you rotate the outer sleeve, you will notice that its two big eyes are the eyes that can change their expressions, and you will be heartbroken and intoxicated. The top of the head is a lifting ring to facilitate the lifting of the shell, like the sparse hair of this small pudding. The words on the front are its name: Pudding。

From the appearance, you can see that the application object of household mini robots such as pudding must be the smart toys that parents buy to accompany their children, so it must have two characteristics: parents look good, and children like it. In fact, both of these characteristics can be expressed in one form: robots are good-looking and cute. The pudding completely conforms to the positioning: the cylindrical blue outer package bid farewell to mediocrity and the cute don't don't don't don't look at it and said "take me away, take me away quickly". The pudding can make full use of the outer package to express the product, so that I can immediately attract my attention without opening the package, which is my favorite place. The first step on the outer packing was done well.

When you lift the loop on the top of the pudding, you will see a pair of big, watery eyes staring at you, suddenly feeling like a deer bumping.

Pick up the pudding and put it aside. First, look at the accessories: San Bao certificate, instructions, user guide, data cable, power plug, everything.

There are also two sensors and stickers, which are pasted on the door of the house to watch the home use, as detailed below. I noticed that this power plug is large enough, its output is 5V 2A, plus the 500mAh power of pudding, the charging speed can be imagined.

Look back at the tearful pudding next to you. These big bright eyes and a pair of long eyebrows are fixed with adhesive tape. When you use them, you have to remove them, because they block the camera behind. If you like me think these eyes are too cute to throw away, stick them behind the pudding.

   The base of the pudding is metallic matte texture, with pudding English characters, which is relatively heavy. The upper part is ordinary plastic, milky white, easy to leave fingerprints and scratches. The two protruding ears on the left and right are actually speakers, and the auricle is decorated and protected with the same metal as the base. The front face is a black display screen and camera, with a beautiful arc behind it to make it look less monotonous. The overall shape is egg shaped, white throughout, and the base is silver. The front needs to display text, so black is the background color.

On both sides of the robot head are distributed a design that looks like an "ear". This is where the speaker of the pudding robot is located. It can not only recognize voice commands, but also conduct voice interaction and music playing.

The overall design is simple, and the shape is pretty cute. Holding it in the hand, it really looks like an egg with a slightly larger size and a little weight. In addition to its size of 100 * 95 * 93mm and weight of 326g, it is very suitable for children to put on their desks to accompany them in their study and play. I'm afraid that children are too busy playing to learn. After all, this cute cute thing has full killing power for young children. What's rare is that the pudding robot can't see a screw in its appearance. It adopts a fully hidden design, which will not be easily removed by the bear child. It pays great attention to the simple design style of appearance, and likes it.

Another point is that there is a network access permit attached to the bottom of the pudding. I'm curious why it has a network access permit without inserting the sim card. Please let me know. Tear up the network access permission. Below are two standard USB output ports and charging ports, as well as the switch reset key. I still think these two USB outlets are redundant. On the one hand, the average output power is 1A, and it is not used by minors.

The 2D code and text of the pudding base. What I want to say is that the rotation of pudding can only be controlled by mobile phone during monitoring. In other cases, you can't break it hard. However, the quality control of the robot is not very good. The upper body has a slight rotation angle relative to the base, which is obvious when you manually twist it. In addition, the processing of the plastic shell of pudding really makes my obsessive-compulsive patient a little uncomfortable, Pinch up deformation is large, and the gap is large. This is why I have always been reluctant to buy crowdfunding products. They are small in volume and short in improvement space. How to say, pudding still needs efforts!

The following are the relevant parameters of pudding as intelligent hardware. The pudding is connected to the mobile phone APP through WIFI, so what is this Bluetooth used for.

I still don't understand the function of pudding.

The pudding here looks a little shy.

Three babies.

▼ APP Adaptation

In terms of APP, pudding and mobile phone are connected by WIFI, which means that pudding can be used as a voice intercom between parents and children at home. Parents who go out can hear or even see the children's dynamic at home through pudding, and parents can tell by pudding voice when they come home late. Pudding is a great bridge between parents and children.

At the first glance when you open the APP, you can simply understand the functions of pudding: sensors, walkie talkies, story collections, and message boards.

Register and scan the QR code at the bottom of the pudding to complete the binding, which is fast and convenient.

The APP can bind multiple puddings, and you can select a character mode for pudding during initialization. This funny mode, well, is not a serious pudding.

First, let's talk about its main function, video remote chat. The button on the right side of the bottom of the home page is a shortcut key. Click it and wait for the network buffer to see the situation of the children at home. Turn on voice and dialogue, so that the anxious children at home can immediately hear the voice and picture of their parents. Of course, the 85 LED grating light arrays on the pudding display screen are not dry to see, and the pudding with Q cute expression can also be described by voice.

What I want to ask here is why pudding cannot be monitored and recorded. The built-in 8GB storage space is used for this purpose? Why doesn't APP see this function?

     The picture below is a 1080 * 828 resolution image captured through the monitoring of pudding, which is still relatively clear. Of course, it can only be said that it is relatively clear, and it may not be clear to see the word "pushing" further away. Someone said that this camera should be added to the infrared night view mode. Do you think it is necessary? I will tell you my opinion below.

If you want to watch the house with pudding, you can immediately use it after binding the cloth sensor. Paste the cloth sensor on the door, set the pudding to the "watch the house mode", and then go out. Everything in the home is under control, and the pudding will push home sounds through your mobile phone at any time. By the way, you can also remotely control the 360 degree rotation of the pudding and capture it manually at any time. Under the condition that the voice of the main business is satisfactory, the pudding can also show a little skill at home, which has to be admired. This is also an element that can not only appeal to children, but also make parents decide to buy. Pudding tells you that sidelines are very important.

The details I noticed about these two cloths are that before they are used in the packaging, the cloths have insulating patches to prevent the loss of battery power. They can work normally after being torn off. But the built-in battery is specially made, that is to say, it is disposable, and you have to buy it again after use.

Pudding is good at talking with children about voice interaction, so ROOBO That is, the pudding manufacturer specially developed “ R-KIDS ”Children's voice interaction system is based on the voice recognition system of iFLYTEK. This self-developed system mainly improves children's understanding of language meaning, childlike expression, multi round dialogue, pure segmentation of exclusive content, and backstage database analysis.

Next, I will see how the pudding reflects and functions through a simple voice tease, and tap its head to start the conversation:

Q: Xu Jiaying's "Cultivating Love"

Answer: The pudding has never heard of this song. Can the master teach me how to sing it?

Q: Air quality

A: PM2.5 53 today is good. It's a little dusty, but I haven't seen it.

Q: Do you think you are handsome?

Answer: I am handsome from the inside out. (Black line~)

Q: Do you have a girlfriend?

Answer: Yes, it is beautiful, but not as beautiful as you. (Good at talking!)

Q: Tell a story about Little Red Riding Hood.

Answer: I haven't learned this story yet. You can ask me the story of Snow White and the seven dwarfs

Q: The story of Snow White.

A: There are a lot of Barabara. (In fact, it doesn't tell a story at all. It just conceptualizes the story stem.)

If you don't speak, the pudding will say, "Call me again. The pudding will come at any call. Go quietly by itself... The pudding will play by itself...", indicating that it is ready for standby. In standby mode, pudding usually displays time information.

The voice function of pudding is relatively comprehensive. In addition to telling stories, pudding has not yet been fully mastered. In other aspects, pudding is fully capable of acting as a smart partner for a primary school child. The childlike calm voice must make the child particularly affectionate. In addition, the cute expression may make adults like the pleasure of talking with this little guy. The following picture shows the cute expression pack of pudding. The blood tank is empty.

In terms of voice, you can also manually add the dialogue content of pudding, so that parents can further teach their children how to speak and communicate with others. Voice interaction is also the specialty of pudding.

The animation of pudding on the main page of APP is also a feature that I like very much. In short, this guy is going to sell cuteness to the end.

When pudding listens to the speech, it is like this:

Then count the advantages of pudding voice dialogue function: it covers radio listening, timing reminder, constellation, weather forecast, time broadcast, chat, music, air quality and other aspects of life, entertainment, comprehensive and serious. If the positioning of pudding is not just a child robot, I think it is suitable for every family to be an intelligent housekeeper.

I am a 20-year-old college student, and I have surprises and regrets about the short time contact with pudding. Surprisingly, such a cute little dot can really communicate with me easily and humorously all day long. Unfortunately, it can't understand English and dialect. Just a joke. Although its voice system is based on iFLYTEK, it obviously reflects slowly, and its speech speed is stable without emotional changes, which makes me regret. If pudding can sample the voice of parents, And when the children talk to them in the tone of their parents, will it be a killer effect.

I like this little guy. Its compact fuselage allows children to have no pressure. Its rotating fuselage and the spin monitoring sideline developed from it are the highlights of its difference. It can't be better to please children and satisfy parents. It would be great if we could walk around like the Star Wars robot BB-8. I think it's better for the experimenters like me to do this, but whether it's necessary or not is what Roobo should think about.

▼ Summary

Is pudding a qualified household robot? Yes, can pudding bring joy to children at home? That's all right. Is there any special function besides voice conversation? Of course, there are remote video, voice and monitoring. I haven't experienced other kinds of intelligent robots, but for such pudding, it is enough to satisfy me. I really hate that some experience users say without thinking when making suggestions that night vision should be added to monitoring. Please, this is a child robot, not a special monitoring device. Is it necessary to do this? As far as I am concerned, it is inevitable to turn on the key physical buttons, otherwise, it will drive me crazy sooner or later to plug in the power when starting up, or to poke with a toothpick when turning off. Another thing is that if the screen uses smaller LED lights and brings multi-color effects, it will attract more children's attention.

In fact, intelligence is booming today, and some aspects are really backward. I always think that children need to communicate with people rather than with such a plugged in robot, which is not conducive to the growth of children. Children should communicate and play with peers more, which is the ideal growth environment. So parents should spend more time with their children instead of giving them cold machine toys.

On March 31, 2016, Roobo Beijing Intelligent Housekeeper Technology released a new intelligent robot named pudding 1S, which looks like a micro upgrade version, similar to the first generation product. I don't know whether pudding will continue to be made and whether there will be a subsequent version, but I hope that this kind of mini home robot products will become more and more abundant. Many years later, we may have such a "robot butler" in our homes.