IZI Robotics' CUBO reads books to kids, teaches English

by Cyrus Farivar, posted Nov 22nd 2006 at 3:47AM

We're pretty sure the CUBO must come from a combination of the words "cute" and "robot" (or perhaps, cueball?) because this is just the most adorable little thing that we've ever seen. IZI Robotics has just demoed this brother of Netoy at the Next Generation Computing Show 2006 in Korea, and the staff of AVING was wowed by its myriad of abilities; CUBO can read books to kids, teach English, provide "home monitoring," update the news and weather, give a wake-up call, and even comes with something called "robot mail." We're not sure what that is, but we're hoping that it isn't the sinister communications channel that we've been fearing all robots have for when they take over the world with their collective cuteness.

Filed under: Robots

Tags: cubo, cute, english, izi robotics, IziRobotics, korea, next generation computing show 2006, NextGenerationComputingShow2006, robot mail, RobotMail, robots

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ante9383 @ Nov 22nd 2006 4:23AM

I for one welcome our really, really, ridiculously cute robotic overlords.

:)

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daliminator2000 @ Nov 22nd 2006 5:03AM

I, for one, welcome our adorable multitasking, robot mailing, cute ray-wielding robotic overlords.

...I've been waiting for this. Bring on the CARE B34R7X3s!

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GhostDoggy @ Nov 22nd 2006 5:24AM

Maybe we could equip them for English as a Second Language and ship a million to Latin America so the border-crossers will be better spoken on the far side of our border.

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Ken @ Nov 22nd 2006 7:03AM

Shouldn't these incredibly cute robots be teaching Spanish instead?

Given population trends in the US, they should make it a prerogative that all English-speaking people take Spanish if they wish to remain in the US as productive members of society. This cute robot will undo all the work of "Dora the Explorer", "Go, Diego, Go", and "Elmo in Espanol."

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KapsLocked @ Nov 22nd 2006 1:59PM

Reminds me of an AnthroPC (the blue and green one)

http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=758

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