Sentences with phrase «lynx robot»

This is the Lynx robot by a company called Ubtech, which is essentially an Amazon Echo speaker built in to a plastic humanoid.

The Lynx robot is the first ever to be enabled by Amazon's Alexa voice assistant, but this $ 799 humanoid does much more than answer questions and control your smart home gadgets.

Thanks to the power of Amazon's cloud, the Lynx robot will support commands like setting reminders, playing music, and providing the daily weather report.

When I asked Alexa for a simple local weather report, the Lynx robot moved along with the audible response like it was reciting a heartfelt monologue from one of Shakespeare's plays.

That's probably the best reason to choose UBTECH Robotics» new Alexa - enabled Lynx robot over the Amazon Echo — that, or you're very, very lonely.

The startup's Lynx robot is powered by Amazon's Alexa assistant and can be used to control smart home devices through Alexa.

One of the most remarkable toys of the holiday season, the Lynx robot can snap a photo, show you some dance moves, or lead the whole family in a workout routine — and it's all controlled by voice.

Not exact matches

Inventor Chris Slaughter, a former University of Texas at Austin electrical engineering student who spearheaded the Lynx's development, got interested in 3 - D machine vision in 2011 after a Silicon Valley internship working with robots — which, he learned, have an important weakness.

There's the potential for the Lynx to become something incredibly cool one day, but UBTECH is going to need an SDK and to open up the robot to hackers and tinkerers to discover what that really is.

To make it easier to justify spending $ 800 on an Alexa device, the Lynx includes additional functionality that better takes advantage of it being a tiny humanoid robot.

The most impressive feature of the Lynx is how you can use it to not only video call your kids from anywhere in the world, but also tell the robot to high - five or give a hug with a push of a button on the app.

The only trade - off is that you need to have Alexa to tell Lynx to do things and literally say the name Lynx any time you want the robot to do something Alexa doesn't do natively.

Thanks to the Lynx's two ear - speakers, you can play music through the robot, but audio quality is somewhere between that of the Echo Dot and what the Google Home Mini produces.

Introduced nearly a year ago, but finally available for sale, the Ubtech Lynx is the first robot with Alexa built in.

Not only can the Lynx answer questions, look up restaurants, and turn your lights on and off, but this robot also has a few other tricks, such as a built - in webcam and the ability to do yoga and get its dance on.