What is Fribo?
Fribo is a small robot who listens to what happens in your life and helps to connect with your friends. A small cute social networking robot especially made for youngsters to increase the social connectedness through sharing their day to day home activities from Living Noise Data(LND).
Around the world millions of young adults living alone in the age group of 18 to 30. This Social Isolation problem is going to be solved with the upcoming Fribo robot.
Fribo recognization is similar to Amazon’s Alexa. but, it recognizes all the noises happening around the house except voice. Fribo concentratedly constructed to give most priority to user’s privacy. This Fribo social networking robot was built by researchers from Yonsei University and KAIST, Korea.
What kind of noise Fribo can recognize
Fribo can recognize the following noises and actions:
- Microwave turning on noise
- Vacuum cleaner motor running sound
- Washing machine running sound
- Refrigerator door closing sound
- Senses room temperature
- Senses room humidity
- Light is on or not
What it will do with that noise
Fribo sends a message about recognized noise to another Fribo in your friend’s house which connected to your network.
Sharing daily activity with your friends is like almost living together in the same house. Fribo is a living creature which is a companion to everyone who spends their whole life alone.
Fribo will create a new kind of community in the world.
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| Picture from Yonsei University and KAIST via IEEE Spectrum
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What is inside Fribo
Fribo made with sensors and microprocessors which includes the following:
(A) illuminance sensor
(B) LCD
(C) ultrasonic sensor
(D) speaker
(E) microphone
(F) sound sensor
(G) temperature and humidity sensor
(H) Raspberry Pi 3
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| Picture from Yonsei University and KAIST via IEEE Spectrum
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