It's an intelligent media hub with facial recognition, text-to-speech and media management. It can also watch a baby and guard your home. SCOTY (Smart Companion Operating Technology) can tell when you have new mail and it can even read it back to you in a female, synthesized voice.
SCOTY is segmented tower in a metal and plastic base swiveled around. The top two glowing segments are articulated so that the integrated camera can watch you and the room. The color video camera can also capture video at 10 frames per second. Its smooth, segmented body glows with different colors signifying that it is "listening" to and "understanding" requests. It relies largely on software installed on a connected PC. The software provides facial recognition, text-to-speech and media management. It is wired- and wireless-network ready.
Media management:
Scoty can manage a personal computer's communication and entertainment capabilities, find and play songs by voice request, record television shows, tell users when they have e-mail, read the e-mail aloud. It takes and sends voice-to-text e-mail dictation. It takes pictures, captures video, and gives the time when asked.
Interaction with the environment:
Scoty has no keyboard and does not require the knowledge of any computer languages to use it. You interact with it using voice commands. It can scan a room, detect human faces, recognize different users. The color of the LED-illuminated panels changes depending on the user. The robot can notify you via e-mail that someone is in the room.
