{"id":6591,"date":"2017-01-18T07:52:52","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T23:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/haslinasarkan\/?p=6591"},"modified":"2017-01-20T07:53:33","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T23:53:33","slug":"mykie-boschs-little-robotic-elf-for-your-kitchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/haslinasarkan\/mykie-boschs-little-robotic-elf-for-your-kitchen\/","title":{"rendered":"Mykie: Bosch&#8217;s Little Robotic Elf for Your Kitchen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article is obtained from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/automaton\/robotics\/home-robots\/mykie-bosch-little-robotic-elf-for-your-kitchen?utm_campaign=TechAlert_01-19-17&amp;utm_source=Tech+Alert&amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;bt_alias=eyJ1c2VySWQiOiAiOWUzYzU2NzUtMDNhYS00YzBjLWIxMTItMWUxMjlkMjZhNjE0In0%3D\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By <span class=\"author-name\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/author\/ackerman-evan-\">Evan Ackerman<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div>Posted <label>11 Jan 2017 | 22:05 GMT<\/label><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/img\/mykie-1484171158932.jpg\" alt=\"Mykie, Bosch's Little Robotic Elf for Your Kitchen\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>At CES last week, one of the major themes was connectivity. Absolutely everything was covered in sensors and connected to the Internet with some sort of app, even if it wasn\u2019t obvious why you\u2019d ever need it to be.<\/p>\n<p>Kitchen appliances were no exception, and Bosch announced both a connected fridge and a connected oven. While an oven that you can control remotely and a fridge that knows what\u2019s inside it are handy enough by themselves, the whole point of a kitchen is to use the food you have in combination with the necessary appliances to create tasty and nutritious meals. Mykie is a little countertop robot that Bosch developed in order to help tie your kitchen hardware together to recipes to make cooking easy and fun.<\/p>\n<p>Mykie is short for \u201cMy Kitchen Elf.\u201d I have no idea why it\u2019s an elf, except that it\u2019s small and, er, helpful, I guess? More generally, Mykie is a product concept designed to to be a personal kitchen assistant that can interface with the other appliances in your home. It\u2019s intended to be an embodiment of your smart kitchen\u2014rather than talking directly to your stove or your fridge, which might be weird, you can talk to Mykie, who will listen to you, talk back, and then control the rest of your connected appliances for you.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inlay pullquote rt med\">In addition to voice control, Mykie has a touchscreen you can poke at, but its most useful feature has to be a powerful little projector in his butt.<\/aside>\n<p>In addition to voice control, Mykie has a touchscreen you can poke at, but its most useful feature has to be a powerful little projector in his butt. Or, where his butt would be if he had one. Rather than having to rely on Mykie\u2019s little screen, you can just set the robot on the counter, and it\u2019ll\u00a0project a much larger image onto your kitchen wall. This is especially useful if you need help with your cooking: Mykie can take you through recipes step by step, displaying pictures and videos of the cooking techniques you should be using.<\/p>\n<p>Bosch is hoping that a substantial amount of Mykie\u2019s usefulness will come from the way it can integrate into the rest of your kitchen. For example, you can ask Mykie to come up with recipes that use the food you currently have in your smart fridge, and as you start cooking, the robot will preheat the oven to the right temperature for you at the right time. You can also use Mykie\u2019s \u201cvirtual social cooking\u201d to remotely attend cooking classes in real time, following along in your kitchen at home as both Mykie and a human instructor help you cook something that you might not otherwise be comfortable cooking on your own.<\/p>\n<p>Mykie does seem to have a potentially useful niche picked out for itself among a herd of social robots promising to do a little bit of everything. We asked Philip Roan, senior robotics engineer at Bosch Home Appliances and a software developer for Mykie, about what he thought about Mykie\u2019s very \u201csocial robot\u201d look, and he told us that Mykie\u2019s designers simply \u201cwent for a design that meshes with the rest of our kitchen aesthetic.\u201d In other words, the robot needed to be small and white to fit in with most people\u2019s kitchens, which is the sort of thing we\u2019ve been hearing from other small home robot designers as well.<\/p>\n<p>Mykie is a product concept right now, and as such, Bosch isn\u2019t sharing any information on price or availability. It seems reasonable to expect that they\u2019re not just designing and building robots for fun, though, and our guess is that that Mykie might show up in kitchens within a year or so, if we\u2019re lucky.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is obtained from\u00a0here. &nbsp; By Evan Ackerman Posted 11 Jan 2017 | 22:05 GMT At CES last week, one of the major themes was connectivity. Absolutely everything was covered in sensors and connected to the Internet with some sort of app, even if it wasn\u2019t obvious why you\u2019d ever need it to be. 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