Zenbo has basic hearing and visual capabilities. It comes with a 10-inch touch screen display on the top, and the four wheels and environmental sensors enable it to move freely and avoid collision or falling down stairs. It runs Android OS and ASUS’s proprietary robot interface software. Zenbo responds to “Hey Zenbo” voice commands. With machine learning, Zenbo is able to continuously improve the success rate of voice and image recognitions and to learn user’s habits. According to ASUS, Zenbo will be made available in the market at the end of 2016.
I. ASUS Zenbo, a new competitor in the smart home market
II. International development of smart machines for smart home
III. Smart services provided by and interfaced with smart-machine devices
IV. Development issues for smart-machine devices
Figure 1. Basic home services and smart vehicles