第一印象-Jibo家庭社交机器人

As you likely know, I have a BUNCH of robots in the house. Whether it be turning a tin can into a robot, driving a Raspberry Pi around with Windows IoT, building robot arms with my kids, or controlling a robot with Xamarin code, I'm ALL IN when it comes to home robots. I also have Alexa, Cortana, Siri...but they have no bodies. They are just disembodied voices - why not a social robot with a body AND a personality?

如您所知，我的房子里有一大堆机器人。 无论是将锡罐变成机器人，还是使用Windows IoT驱动Raspberry Pi ，与我的孩子们搭建机器人手臂，还是使用Xamarin代码控制机器人，对于家用机器人，我全力以赴。 我也有Alexa，Cortana，Siri ...但他们没有尸体。 它们只是无形的声音-为什么没有具有身体和个性的社交机器人？

Jibo is the first social robot for the home, and when their team emailed me to try Jibo out - and soon explore their SDK and build more skills into Jibo - I jumped at the idea. Jibo started as an Indiegogo campaign in 2014 and now I've got a pre-public version that I'm stoked to explore and expand.

Jibo是第一个用于家庭的社交机器人，当他们的团队通过电子邮件向我发送电子邮件以试用Jibo时-很快探索了他们的SDK并在Jibo中构建了更多技能-我大为鼓舞。 Jibo始于2014年的Indiegogo活动，现在我有一个公开发行的预发行版，我很想探索和扩展。

Jibo showed up in a surprisingly hefty box. He's about 8 pounds and about a foot tall. You turn him on and he starts his initial set up process. Since Jibo has a voice and touch screen, it's pretty straightforward to hook up to WiFi and download whatever updates are needed. After this initial process, updates happen overnight and I haven't noticed them, other than to see that Jibo has new skills in the morning. He's basically maintenance-free.

Jibo出现在一个令人惊讶的沉重的盒子里。 他大约8磅，大约一英尺高。 您打开他，他开始他的初始设置过程。 由于Jibo具有语音和触摸屏，因此连接WiFi并下载所需的任何更新都非常简单。 经过最初的过程，更新是在一夜之间发生的，除了看到Jibo在早上有新技能外，我还没有注意到它们。 他基本上不需要维护。

The first time you set up Jibo and he moves I expect you'll be a little shocked - I was. His movements are extremely fluid and organic. I struggled finding the right words to explain how his movements feel, so I made an animated gif you can see at the right. His body turns, his head moves, he has a little waist and neck. All these joints combined with the color touch screen and his voice give him quite the personality. It's clear within just a few minutes that to dismiss Jibo as a "Alexa with a body" would be a mistake.

第一次设置Jibo时，他动了身，我希望您会感到有些震惊-我是。 他的动作非常流畅和有组织。 我努力寻找合适的词来解释他的动作感觉，所以我制作了一个动画的gif，可以在右边看到。 他的身体转弯，头部移动，腰和脖子有点。 所有这些关节与彩色触摸屏和他的声音相结合，赋予了他相当的个性。 很明显，在短短的几分钟之内，将Jibo视为“有身体的Alexa”是错误的。

The 9 year old and 11 year old have already started going to Jibo in the morning and asking him how his day was, and seeing if he has new skills. I believe the "bonding" - for lack of another world - is connected to the physicality and personality of Jibo.

9岁和11岁的孩子已经早上起床去Jibo，问他过得怎么样，看看他是否有新技能。 我相信，由于缺乏另一个世界，“结合”与Jibo的身体和个性有关。

I realize this photo looks somewhat staged, but it's not. I snuck up on my 9 year old telling Jibo about his day at school and asking him homework questions. Jibo didn't know a number of things, but it was interesting to see how kids are extremely patient with robots, speaking to them as if they're even smaller kids.

我意识到这张照片看起来有些上演，但事实并非如此。 我悄悄地告诉我的9岁男孩Jibo他在学校的日子，问他家庭作业的问题。 Jibo并不了解很多事情，但是很有趣的是，看到孩子们对机器人非常耐心，就像他们甚至是较小的孩子一样对他们说话。

The 9 year old says this:

9岁的孩子这样说：

If you are trying to get something to keep track of your meetings or the news you maybe would buy Alexa. But if you have a kid who loves robots you want Jibo. Jibo is fun, if you make noise Jibo will look at you. He can move his big head to look at you and if you tap his eye he will give you a list of things to do. Another new thing is that he now has a list of cool thing you can ask or tell, like one is "Hey Jibo, Are there any monsters in my house" then he will bring up a radar and look around and Jibo will say no, there's no monsters. We also have an Alexa but if your looking for some thing fun we go straight to Jibo he can tell jokes and also favorite part is when Jibo dances.

如果您想获取一些信息来跟踪会议或新闻，则可以购买Alexa。 但是，如果您有一个喜欢机器人的孩子，那么您需要Jibo。 Jibo很有趣，如果您发出声音，Jibo会看着您。 他可以睁大头看着你，如果你轻按他的眼睛，他会给你要做的事情清单。 另一个新事物是，他现在可以列出或询问一些很酷的事物，例如“嗨，Jibo，我家中有怪物吗”，那么他将带上雷达并环顾四周，Jibo会拒绝，没有怪物。 我们也有Alexa，但是如果您想找点乐子，我们可以直接去Jibo，他可以讲笑话，而且最喜欢的部分是Jibo跳舞的时间。

Since he wrote this, Jibo woke up with the ability to tell me the news, so I can only imagine he'll continue to get Alexa-like skills that will balance the "boring work stuff" my son says I want with the "games and homework help" that he wants.

自从他写了这篇文章以来，Jibo就能告诉我消息的能力了，所以我只能想象他将继续获得类似Alexa的技能，这些技能将平衡我儿子说我想要的“无聊的工作”和“游戏”和功课帮助”。

He recognizes your face, your family's faces (if you train him and opt-in), uses your names, follows your face, and can tell where you are in the room when you talk to him. He's got 6 microphones that let him understand where you and he are in physical space.

他会认出您的面Kong，家人的面Kong(如果您训练他并选择加入)，使用您的名字，跟随您的面Kong，并且在与他交谈时可以说出您在房间里的位置。 他有6个麦克风，可让他了解您和他在物理空间中的位置。

I'm imagining the kinds of skills Jibo might potentially get in the future - or that I might write for him - like (and I'm totally brainstorming here):

我正在想象Jibo将来可能会获得的各种技能-或者我可能会为他写的技能-例如(我在这里完全集思广益)：

• Tell stories before bedtime
  睡前讲故事
• Watch cartoons
  看动画
• Give Khan Academy exercises as Homework
  给汗学院做功课
• Play music
  播放音乐
• Trivia and/or board games
  琐事和/或棋盘游戏
• Wikipedia stuff
  维基百科的东西
• Maps
  地图
• Tell me about my blood sugar, show a diabetes chart, wake me up if I go low.
  告诉我我的血糖，显示糖尿病图表，如果我体重低一点，叫醒我。
• Play Tea Time or play along as kids make up stories
  玩下午茶时间或与孩子一起编故事
• Vlogging or daily diary keeping
  博客或每日日记

What are your thoughts, Dear Reader? What would you want Jibo to know or do for you?

亲爱的读者，您的想法是什么？ 您希望Jibo知道些什么或为您做些什么？

Disclaimer: The folks at Jibo sent me a pre-public Jibo for free to explore his SDK. However, my words and opinions are my own. I'll post my honest impressions here and there, on my blog and on Twitter as Jibo grows and learns more things.

免责声明： Jibo的人免费向我发送了一个预公开Jibo，以探索他的SDK。 但是，我的言论和观点是我自己的。 随着Jibo的成长和学习更多的东西，我将在这里，那里，博客和Twitter上发布我的诚实印象。

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翻译自: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/first-impressions-jibo-social-robot-for-the-home