The Spanish startup Adele Robots has launched a campaign in Kickstarter trying to raise funding for their device, FIONA.
FIONA lets you interact with your home and connected devices through your voice. Using natural voice commands you can keep your hands free and control the things in your home by speaking to them.
The interface for this device is a virtual assistant and the interaction with it is just like talking to a human being.
FIONA is built on an open source artificial intelligence platform which allows anyone to build new interactions, voice commands and connections to other devices. Developers and designers everywhere can help make FIONA smarter!
FIONA lets you talk to the world around you and the world responds directly to your voice. By connecting FIONA to your home and wifi devices you can keep your hands free and just ASK for simple tasks to be completed: open the garage door and turn off the lights in the house as you leave without lifting a finger, keep your day on track by asking FIONA to read your schedule, to turn on the oven and call a friend to ask for their cooking advice without setting down your knife or burning the garlic. Ask FIONA to transcribe and send emails, text messages, or even tweets without picking up your phone, turning on your computer or stopping whatever you are already doing.
FIONA’s artificial brain learns about you and your behavior. The more you talk to FIONA the more it understands about you. FIONA learns your daily routine and can use its intelligence to automate the things you do regularly. FIONA can make suggestions about how to save you time by optimizing the things you do every day.
The Kickstarter campaign can be viewed here: http://kck.st/1albweo
FIONA is the name of your virtual personal assistant and is also the name of the underlying artificial intelligence platform. It enables the crowdsourcing of an artificial mind. FIONA’s intelligence is open for developers around the world to build new interactions, behaviors and connections which Adele Robots is calling Sparks.
Developers can create new sparks by taking advantage of natural language features, camera interactions and custom avatar design. FIONA can learn to respond to human gestures, listen for queues to offer information and change its appearance to suit you.
Adele Robots has been building intelligent robots for years. It’s goal is to improve peoples lives. They build robots to share in the human experience. The robots understand what humans are feeling by paying attention to human behavior and language. Meet Tico on Adele’s youtube page. Tico has helped improve the lives of children, the elderly and people with disabilities by performing simple tasks, providing companionship and enhancing education.
This is where FIONA was born! An open community to crowdsource the creation of an artificial mind! FIONA’s physical manifestation as your virtual home assistant is the next step to bringing the power of artificial intelligence into peoples lives.
Thank you so much.
The Fiona Team!
