Midea Xiaowei-Robot Butler For Your Home

Do you want a robotic butler to serve you at home? Now you can with Midea Xiaowei-Robot Butler For Your Home. It can recognise you and follow you.

Everyone! Meet Midea Xiaowei-the Robot Butler For Your Home. Midea, one of China's largest makers of electrical appliances, unveils the Xiaowei. It is the first iteration of the company's home service robot that can recognise faces. It is also equipped with its own projector so that it can play movies for you at home. The General Manager of the Midea AI Innovation Center, Dr Tang Jian, expects that Xiaowei will make family life easier and more convenient.

Midea Xiaowei-Robot Butler For Your Home

Xiaowei is approximately one metre tall and has a screen face to show you her "adorable facial traits." It can also access smart home equipment and Internet of Things devices. When Xiaowei detects that a family member is returning home, for instance, it can turn on the lights and the air conditioner in advance. So everything can be automated even more, right?

So, how does the robot waiter know who is returning home? Face and body monitoring technology allows Xiaowei to recognise family members the moment they arrive at home. I wonder how accurate is the capability of this robot butler.

Dr Tang Introduced Xiaowei To The World

Midea claims that you can command the robot to keep an eye on events and assist with domestic item delivery, remote monitoring, and safety patrol. As aforementioned, Xiaowei features its own built-in projector, allowing you to utilise it as a mobile theatre, entertainment centre, or interactive play space.

Xiaowei Can Project Movies For You!

In addition, Xiaowei's built-in 3D camera can scan your home in all directions, it can perform autonomous mapping, and can recognise object qualities. You may use your voice to direct your robot butler to "go to the sofa," and it will understand and comply. That's one smart robot if you ask me! Dr Tang stated that the robot is anticipated to create a trend in home care. The integration of advanced technology, particularly artificial intelligence, will be improved.

Will Robot Butler Be Our Future?

It is anticipated that Xiaowei would be introduced in the second half of 2022 under Midea's independent brand Wishug. Dr Tang anticipates that domestic robots, like smartphones and alternative energy cars, will "become a necessity for families." Will a robot butler like this Midea Xiaowei become something very normal in the future? Time will tell. However, this really reminds me of the film I, Robot starring Will Smith where robots retaliated against humans!