Temi robot: Alexa morphs into mobile droid form at CES 2019

Temi robot: Alexa morphs into mobile droid form at CES 2019

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Robotics company Robotemi announced at CES on Monday that it's bringing Alexa to its Temi robot, which goes on sale in March this year. The robot was originally designed to provide home assistance to the elderly using telepresence skills. Now, with its screen providing and Echo Show-like experience, it transforms into a voice-activated tool that can perform a whole range of tasks that go beyond video calling, from controlling the lights to showing YouTube videos.

Temi is not the first robot to be equipped with Alexa -- you can look to the small, humanoid Ubtech Lynx for that. The tiny tabletop Anki Vector also gained Alexa capabilities at the end of 2018. But Temi is the first robot that can navigate autonomously around a space to have Amazon-powered virtual assistant skills.