Robosoft Kompai takes care of your elderly so you don't have to (video)

This one has been quite a long time in coming, but Robosoft's service drone has finally made it off the drawing board, collected a catchy name, and headed off to the big world to seek its fortune as an R&D platform. Kompai is a personal assistance bot built around speech -- it understands basic instructions and requests and offers appropriate responses with its own monotonic style. It'll serve as a note and shopping list recorder, a calendar, a music player, or a video conferencing tool for when old grandpappy needs to call his doctor. If you think having a programmable hunk of mobile metal that's permanently connected to the net in your house is a good idea, look out for OEMs picking up the design during the Intercompany Long Term Care Insurance Conference taking place next week. And if you just wanna see a bug-eyed bot talk to an old dude, click past the break for the video.

[Thanks, Erico]

[PSimpson Posted Mar 10th 2010 9:08AM]

Speech recognition seems good, but the speech output needs a lot of work.

[Plazmic Flame Posted Mar 10th 2010 9:14AM]

This is pretty crazy and cool! Those eyes those would make me uneasy though, I'll make sure to have my gun on me at all times...

[n0ne Posted Mar 10th 2010 9:15AM]

Damn old geezers, TAKING AWAY OUR FREEDOMS!!!

[dhulk Posted Mar 10th 2010 9:24AM]

Kompai! Make me a sandwich!

[GenericMessage Posted Mar 10th 2010 9:26AM]

Because if its one thing confused elderly people love; its robots.


Robots:
Doing what your children should do.

[MarkB Posted Mar 10th 2010 9:35AM]

Smells like an evil plot by Dr. Wily to me...

[Wiggy Fuzz Posted Mar 10th 2010 9:53AM]

it's last feature is population management. it shouts "your time is up!" and disintegrate elderly folk with that head mounted laser.

[BubblegumBalloon Posted Mar 10th 2010 9:57AM]

"Robot, leave me alone" dunnow why but it sounded mean when the guy said that to the robot :P

god help us when robots start getting emotions xD

[Gas Posted Mar 10th 2010 2:56PM]

@BubblegumBalloon
EVERYTHING he said to the poor old robot sounded mean.

[Dorf Posted Mar 10th 2010 9:58AM]

This is a scan to sell more Old Glory insurance.

[Dorf Posted Mar 10th 2010 9:59AM]

@Dorf

"scam" even....

[versionII Posted Mar 10th 2010 10:15AM]

how about they test it out with my senile grandma

[John Doe Posted Mar 10th 2010 10:37AM]

God forbid the thing mixes up Feed me with euthanize me. o.O

[Langdon Alger Posted Mar 10th 2010 10:50AM]

But ... without tentacles or some sort of robotic hand, how is it supposed to pull the plug on the respirator? I guess it could always just let its wheels snag the power cord and move away from the receptacle. I say we wait until version 2.0 when they have addressed that fatal design flaw, pun intended.

[Plazmic Flame Posted Mar 10th 2010 11:02AM]

@Langdon Alger

Elderly: "Kompai, pull the rug."
Kompai: "Confirmed, pulling the plug."
Elderly: Yes, pull thOH SHIIIIII...

[BuzzMega Posted Mar 10th 2010 11:11AM]

Designed by Trey Parker and Matt Stone?

[Tommunist Posted Mar 10th 2010 11:31AM]

EXTERMINATE!

[UrAwFuL Posted Mar 10th 2010 12:19PM]

Looks like a South Park character..

[das boot Posted Mar 10th 2010 12:24PM]

i wouldn't buy this, i would just put my oldster down. They've lived a full life, why not smother them in their sleep. lol. or better yet, get the robot and let him do it, then return it claiming it killed gramps lol.

[onnexus Posted Mar 10th 2010 2:54PM]

Hopefully they have Old Glory Insurance

http://www.robotcombat.com/video_oldglory_hi.html

[CaptainSmokey Posted Mar 10th 2010 2:59PM]

I like when it says the date it says Twenty Ten as the date.

[br0adcast Posted Mar 10th 2010 3:06PM]

am I the only one reminded of Rocky by looking at this contraption?

[paul2 Posted Mar 10th 2010 3:06PM]

@ Plazmic Flame

lol
you´ve made my day, thank you for that^^

[hellojoaquin Posted Mar 10th 2010 6:36PM]

Don't fall on your way out @ 3:25.
Where the hell does it go anyway?

[SalsaMan Posted Mar 10th 2010 6:49PM]

first thing i thought of was "Serge" from the Graystone's house... can we have holobands next please?