CES 2017 from LG brings us a robot called Hub Robot, which is the Koreans' answer to Amazon Echo or Google Home. More precisely, we are talking about a gadget that is meant to control certain smart products in our homes and allow us to listen to music, watch movies and much, much more.
Although it competes with Amazon Echo, Hub Robot is based on the technology behind Amazon Alexa to recognize users' voice commands. The robot has a main screen on which it displays information and images requested by us, but its speakers can play music and provide a variety of information based on the questions asked by us.
Unlike Amazon Echo or Google Home, Hub Robot is mobile and can follow us around the house, if we need it to do so. Moreover, the screen can display a variety of animations that try to reproduce some facial expressions of people, but of course everything depends on the software used by LG for it.
CES 2017: Hub Robot – the LG robot that competes with Amazon Echo
Apart from voice commands, Hub Robot can also interpret body movements to be controlled and of course it can monitor all the movements of the people in whose house he lives. LG has also implemented a facial recognition system in the Hub Robot, so that it can recognize all family members and display personalized information for them.
LG imagines that Hub Robot will be used in the kitchen or living room, where the family normally meets for various activities. Apart from the Hub Robot, LG has also launched a variety of other small robots that interconnect with it to display various other information, being able to walk through other rooms of the house, as needed.
Of course, LG has not announced a release date for the Hub Robot, nor how much it will cost, but we are probably talking about a price around $200, that is, a little more than the Amazon Echo.
