On February 27, 2018, Techworld, the UK's leading technology business media, selected 16 of the UK's hottest robot start-ups. Emotech, with its Chinese heritage, was on the list with its core product, Olly.
Emotech, a London-based startup, has designed Olly, the world's first robot with emotional personality. The deep learning capabilities of this voice control device allow it to adapt to each user through daily interactions over time. Personality. The technology won the CES in 2017: “Smart Homeâ€, “UAV Artificial Intelligenceâ€, “Smart Appliancesâ€, “Smart Videoâ€, and has won four innovation awards, and has already won Alliance Capital and Lightning Capital. ) A $10 million (£8 million) Series A round of financing.
Chinese lineage, the world's team
Emotech is headquartered in London, England, and the startup was founded by Zhuang Hongbin during his 2014 human-computer interaction at UCL (University College London).
Zhuang Hongbin, former chairman of the product committee of China's previous generation of social media giant Renren, witnessed the tremendous change in the way people communicate with each other. In the next decade, Zhuang Hongbin is optimistic about human-computer interaction. "Artificial intelligence is not omnipotent. Shentong, entrepreneurship in the field of artificial intelligence, will not be a story of 'the war between heaven and man.' In the melting pot of the market, the more important role is the simple business logic and understanding of human nature itself."
Emotech has attracted international talents with different backgrounds. The team has more than 10 world-class scientists, such as Google DeepMind experts; outstanding doctoral students from many top universities such as University of London and Imperial College; london John Taylor, the head of the University's Computer Statistics and Machine Learning Center and a well-known European computer science professor, was also invited to be a project consultant.
Emotech voice technology researcher Raymond said, “At Emotech, we have gathered industry elites in the fields of top neuroscience, machine learning, mechanical engineering and design. We have a tightly coupled R&D team, so we can create integrated solutions for machine interaction. ."
Voice and visual dual recognition technology surpasses Google
In December last year, Emotech received an invitation from the Royal Academy of Sciences to participate in a Christmas lecture that was founded in 1825 and continues to this day, exploring the connection between Olly's language and emotions and the complexity of human language. Emotech scientist Raymond Ng showed Olly's voice emotion recognition. Olly didn't need to interpret people's discourse content, and did not need to fine-tune different speakers. He summarized the speaker's emotional orientation by analyzing people's tone, voice, and voice strength. .
Raymond's introduction to interpersonal communication involves different dimensions. People's communication is not only speech, but also facial expressions, and even subtle influences of the atmosphere and the environment. After years of testing and research, Emotech found that the use of multimodal information can significantly improve the machine's ability to understand people, and is currently the world's few companies capable of research and development in the multimodal field.
Zhuang Hongbin said that we have reached the world's leading level in the fields of voice, voiceprint, image, emotion recognition, etc. Some algorithms have surpassed Google, Microsoft, IBM and other companies.
Olly: The only home robot with an independent personality
Prior to Emotech's inclusion in the list, the London Development Promotion Agency named Emotech "the most watched London smart company", second only to DeepMind, which owns the "Alpha Dog" team at Google. The London Development Agency said that Olly is the "most aware of the owner's emotional robot", able to self-renew according to the personality of the owner, forming a character tailored for the master, so as to communicate with the owner accurately and emotionally.
Emotech co-founder Chen Xi is also from China. She said in an interview with CNBC in the United States that the emergence of Olly provides consumers with an unprecedented personalized experience. According to the user's personality and living habits, Olly can provide each user with a quantity. A unique response created by the body. Through learning, Olly constantly increases the understanding of the owner, proactively provides services to the user, frees the owner from the cumbersome daily chores, makes the user's life more efficient and easier, and makes the interaction between consumers and technology more human. .
In the view of co-founder Chen Xi, Olly's greater value is in the future, after the hardware sales to a sufficient level, it can bring about qualitative changes, especially Olly can learn from each other, "through the analysis of big data, It is very clear that what kind of music is more suitable for reading and sports, what temperature will make people more comfortable, and the value extended is even greater."
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