Over the weekend, smart home robot Jibo announced $ 11 million in new financing, investment institutions, including Acer, Dentsu Ventures, the net force in the East of China (NetPosa), Japan's operators KDDI and Korea's LG Uplus.
36 krypton contact Oriental NET Vice President Jim Zhang, understanding the investment behind the story and Jibo recent developments, future China policies. Jibo, you don't know should have been here. World robot Conference Smart equipped with competitive
Investment story
Oriental net force is a Shenzhen second board-listed supplier of video surveillance management platform, mainly around video capture, transmission, analysis and application of related business, current 360, Sensetime had set up a joint venture company.
Investment Jibo, consistent with the current Eastern network strategy-based on the video, around the main life scenes of people's clothing, food, shelter, security and video communications, social networking and entertainment needs.
The investment amount of US $ 3 million, accounting for 2.24% a share. Contact since last November, recently released, which lasted 9 months. At present, the network has set up companies in the East--the East wall.
Jibo the round key strategic considerations for opening up markets in East Asia. Select network mainly in the East was of the latter in the area of video capabilities and in-depth understanding of domestic robots. KDDI is Japan's largest operator, LG is Korea's operators, that communication tools are Japan and South Korea two countries the most important sales channels; Acer help Jibo enhanced supply chain control. In addition, there are other investors into this round, Jibo has not yet been made public.
(Note: the official letter from the East network)
Jibo progress
Jim Zhang showed 36 krypton two Jibo real video. These two videos shot in Boston, introducing yourself is a paragraph about Jibo, a Jibo voluntarily after seeing people dancing, Jibo showing of the latest progress as Jibo people approached, auto-play music, squirm, dance, full no action; when Jibo recognition to a different person, different introduction.
At present, the Jibo programmed threshold is very low, like video editing, only need to identify several key elements of the frame. Jibo programming elements include the following: body position and movement ("head", and a "waist" and "ass"), the screen expression, voice, light colors, and so on. For example, let me point a frame, click on a button to determine these elements; then click on the next keyframe, to identify new elements.
Judging from the video, Jibo, there is not much emphasis on voice, possibly with Indiegogo raising videos are different. Oriental NET, Jibo focus and highlights for emotion recognition and interaction. Founder Cynthia for ten years of research in this area, and accumulated a great deal of research and experience, when released next year, will also release the SDK for easy developer Jibo developed on the basis of Skill. Jibo core competencies help it against the fortress.
Jibo in China
Jibo Q1 next year in the United States published published price for $ 749. Jibo has registered a company in China.
At present, the Eastern network advocated to help Jibo do video calling Skill and finished work, helping Jibo landed in China. Chinese version is likely at the end of the price and sales is expected not to disclose.
Target customers on the Jibo, Jim Zhang talked about early users, mainly children, buying mostly middle-and high-end home users. Also some b end customer contact network in the East, including high-end real estate, hotel and so on. High-end real estate hopes to provide tenants with more personal property services; hotel that can be placed in the Executive Suite reception, Jibo personalized service. In addition, O2O life services, may also be creating a class paper Jibo on important application.
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