Meet Yumi, the World’s First Home Robot powered by Android and Amazon Alexa Artificial Intelligence. Yumi can hold a conversation with anyone in the family, kids and adults alike. Yumi has been built on AI from the ground up; it is an incredibly smart and cute robot, a personal assistant, a music hub and a smart-home control point all in one.
LIMITED EDITION
Yumi connects to Alexa, a cloud-based voice service designed by Amazon, to provide information, answer questions, read the news, check sports scores or the weather, and more—instantly. All you have to do is ask.
“We built the Alexa Voice Service so companies like Omate could bring their customers truly magical voice-experiences,” said Aaron Brown, Director of Amazon Alexa.
Hands-on preview in San Francisco on Nov 2, 2016 by CNET – Erica Argueta.
1. Artificial Intelligence
Ask anything you want to Yumi all of this is done by speaking with Yumi.
Interact with Yumi and Amazon’s Alexa Voice Service (AVS) just like you do with your Amazon Echo.
Dear Developers, Yumi is willing to share its memory with other Artificial Intelligence assistants.
Best-in-class stereo sound system for music lovers, Yumi delivers crystal clear sound – Audio Certified by Arkamys – and fits anywhere offering the most vibrant sound ever heard from a stereo mobile wireless speaker. Yumi automatically detects the sound source location thanks to its five embedded microphones so Yumi will look at you when you ask him a question.
Run any VoIP Android apps for Family video calls such as Skype / Google Duo / Viber and many others. Yumi can also act as a video camera surveillance CCTV via its embedded high quality UltraPixel front camera; and yes! Yumi can move via the wheeled rotor engines and through the companion monitoring app so you can remotely check your home wherever you are directly from your smartphone.
Connect the most popular smart home networking systems via their Alexa skills.
Connect Yumi to your TV either via Cast or HDMI and browse Internet from the front HD touch color display; play online videos and download apps and games from 3rd party application stores.
Offer full Android ecosystem to developers to create and test their own applications. Port any Artificial Intelligence on top of Yumi; customize and test your own Android Apps and Amazon Alexa Skills. Port your own Android ROM with our Omate Alexa app and build your robot with Omate so we can explore together new segments: e.g: Enterprise; Kids; Seniors and much more!
We have spent over a year from design to engineering in order to give birth to Yumi. It required deep Android software customization to combine high-end audio and state-of-the-art AI into its complex mechanical design. Yumi has been built on AI from the ground up, it is an incredibly smart and cute robot, a personal assistant, a music hub and a smart-home control point all in one.
Here is the Yumi design story (from Y1 to Y23 iteration) from the first sketch to the mockup and plastic parts tooling by RP Prototype to the assembly of the Prototype Run Zero including YYD mechanical rotor engines and finally up to the integration of Amazon Alexa Artificial Intelligence into the User Interface.
Original Sketch circa October 2015
Jan 2016: Amazon Alexa speech to cloud to device via the embedded Omate Alexa app.
March 2016: Assembly of Prototype Run One (PR1)
June 2016: Yumi Black – Prototype Run 2
August 2016: CCTV app beta test
October 2016: Omate Alexa V1.6 integration
We are currently working on the fine tuning of Yumi sound system with Arkamys to build an incredible audio experience. Arkamys software provides clarity feeling by reaching loud and dynamic sound. They are amazing audio experts!
Last but not least; we are working with Sensory over wake up voice-activation of Yumi to integrate a truly hands free voice-controlled user experience. Sensory’s technology offers an effective voice wake up word technology and ensures that the system is not only activated when the trigger phrase is spoken, but also ensures the system is not accidentally activated when the wake up word is not spoken.
At Omate we do ship products. Do not expect us to make headlines with horror stories. We are financially strong and we know what we do. Omate is a well-known and respected company in the Wearable / IoT World. Our team members have shipped millions of consumer electronics over the last ten years.
1) We raised over $1M with the TrueSmart in 30 days in September 2013.
2) We have raised over $250,000 with the Rise during a crazy two day campaign in December 2015.
Omate is not a typical consumer electronics company. We are telecom engineers, software developers and designers. We focus on tech and we team up with partners to mass produce our technologies. That’s the basis of our B2C2B model – Business To Consumer To Business.
Therefore, we usually launch our new models through preorders and crowdfunding campaigns.
This campaign is a one-of-a-kind event, you get a limited edition six months before anyone else in the World at an incredible price and you support Omate to demonstrate its technologies to B2B partners.
You want to build a robot powered by Omate in 2017 based on Yumi architecture? Contact partner@omate.com
Omate is a hardware and software company that designs wearable tech and IoT products.
Omate’s mission is to connect people through the Internet of Things. We are telecom engineers, software developers and designers. We focus on tech and we team up with folks legitimate in other industries.
Omate is a 500startups backed company operating in Mountain View – California, Hong Kong and Shenzhen – China.
Omate offers full turnkey solutions “Powered by Omate” including hardware modules and software stack allowing companies to design IoT and wearable tech devices.
Since 2013, Omate has been designing innovative wearable technologies and IoT devices that have been shipped out all over the World, from the World’s first standalone Smartwatch 2.0 powered by Android™ to fashion collaboration with refined smart jewelry and smartwatch for ladies. Our IoT wearable modules have also been used to design a kid smartwatch as well as a smartwatch for the elderly and for lone workers.
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Laurent Le Pen is a French tech entrepreneur. Laurent is the Founder & CEO of Omate. An alumnus of 500 Startups and owner of the Wearable / IoT professional group on LinkedIn with over 28,000 members, Laurent has worked in the telecoms and mobile design industries since 2005 and has lived in Shenzhen, China for the past decade. He has in-depth knowledge of advanced wireless technologies, electro-mechanical components and strategic alliances in enterprise and consumer electronics. Laurent is also a prominent tech speaker from Mobile World Congress to hardware and overall IoT Tech events globally.
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We are confident in our ability to deliver this product on time and on quality.
We will keep all of you updated along the way, and we are available for your questions at partner@omate.com.
The campaign will end when the very last backer will receive its reward. Laurent will communicate on a monthly basis with you through Indiegogo updates . If you want weekly news, check our social media pages or interact with us on our Community Forum.
There are always risks that are out of our control, including:
– Certification delays: Various parts of our product must be tested and approved by various independent agencies.
– Unexpected production delays: there are more than 100 parts inside Yumi. We work closely with our vendors to manage on time delivery in order to smoothly run the production but sometimes #*%! happens.
Please note that Omate is driven by a PDCA approach which is basically an iterative four-step management method used in business for the control and continual improvement of processes and products.
“Promise” is not part of our vocabulary. We Plan – Do – Check – Act:
You are NOT allowed to back the Omate Yumi project if…
a) You do not understand the product specifications. ◔_◔
b) You do not believe in the capabilities of Omate to deliver that project.
c) You do not understand the term “estimated” in estimated delivery.
d) You are not a patriot and do not want to pay your duty and local country taxes.
e) You are planning to use a stolen credit card.
f) You are a jerk.
g) All of the above ¯_(ツ)_/¯