Introducing 'Maurice,' a home AI robot that uses a robotic arm to do household chores
Y Combinator-backed AI startup Innate has announced Maurice, a small household robot that can learn tasks within minutes.
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Maurice is a 25cm tall robot equipped with a robotic arm and the AI development board Jetson Orin Nano , and it is expected that it will be able to perform tasks such as cleaning floors and helping with household chores through training.
You can see Maurice carrying the cup in the demonstration video below.
Innate - Maurice serves glasses to humans - YouTube
The video in the center is from Maurice's point of view, and in the background sits Axel Peytavin, co-founder of Innate. Maurice asks Peytavin if he wants a drink. The log on the left indicates that Peytavin is concentrating on his laptop and that he is considering waiting a bit longer to call out to him again since he may not have noticed.
When Peytavin notices Maurice and says he wants a Fanta, Maurice turns around and heads to the kitchen.
'Axel (Peytavin) is waiting, can I have a Fanta?' Maurice casually asked Vignesh Anand, the other co-founder, in the kitchen.
Maurice receives a cup from Anand with a robotic arm.
Maurice hands Mr. Peytavin a cup.
After quenching his thirst with Fanta, Peytavin told Maurice, 'You can go to sleep now.'
Just as I was about to return to the charging station, I noticed Maurice's bed in a corner of the hallway. The log said, 'Bed location successfully identified.'
After finishing his work, Maurice was gently laid to bed.
According to Innate, Maurice uses nine AI models running in the cloud, each of which is responsible for different tasks such as movement and conversation, but behaves like a single AI.
In the demo movie below, you can see Maurice in action as a security robot patrolling the house.
Maurice is enthusiastic about patrolling the house as 'Officer Maurice,' but he also has some issues, such as finding his own bed and reporting 'a suspicious object at the end of the hallway.'
Maurice then discovers an intruder in the living room and confronts him, yelling, 'You're under arrest!'
The intruder was quickly apprehended.
Maurice then reported that he had found an intruder on the user's phone.
'By 2027, our robots will be trained by humans to perform tasks around the home, such as washing dishes, doing laundry, providing security for the home and caring for children and the elderly,' Innate said.
Innate, which announced the launch of Maurice on the social news site Hacker News, announced that it would offer Maurice to Hacker News users for $2,000 each. Purchasers will also receive a one-year free agent fee of $50 per month.
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