On July 9, 2019, “VAIO Co., Ltd. 5th Anniversary New Product Presentation” was held in Tokyo Midtown, and in the latter half of the presentation, Mr. Shinji Kojima, General Manager of NB Division, took the stage “Robot General-Purpose Platform: The commercialization of the communication robot “Ohanashi Koupen-chan (tentative name)” using “Simple” has been announced.
Robot general purpose platform …
hardware and software solutions, cloud services support various servers and the like necessary for the robot development and service operation, to provide all of the functions VAIO own platform
document reference: https://vaio.com/ems/pdf/01.pdf
“Story Koupen-chan” decided to be commercialized
What is Koupen-chan?
It is a character created by popular illustrator Rurutea, who currently has more than 300,000 followers (readers) on Twitter. When I posted “Affirmative Penguin Akachan” on Twitter on April 4, 2017, it gained explosive popularity due to its cute and soft illustrations and compliments on everyday pains.
Other than that, he affirms everyday things such as “It’s amazing to be able to go to work!”, So he is flooded with comments that he is “cute” and “healed”, and the number of followers is still increasing.
“Ohanashi Koupen-chan” will be commercialized!
“Ohanashi Koupen-chan” is a communication robot that positively “affirms” the words and provides “healing” to casual everyday life.
For example, if you say “I saved the earth”, you will reply “Did you save the earth today? Great!” And you can enjoy a variety of other conversations.
The release is scheduled for the end of 2019, and it will be exhibited at “CEATEC JAPAN 2019” to be held in October this year, and the details of the product are scheduled to be announced at that time.
How “Story Koupen-chan” moves
Background to commercialization
Future Media was able to talk to Mr. Shinji Kojima, who is in charge of development, about the background to the commercialization.
Mr. Shinji Kojima
“When we exhibited this product as a reference at the” Original Painting Exhibition with Koupen-chan “held until April 10, 2019, we were able to have many customers experience it. We received a lot of feedback from the commercialization and came to this product announcement with expectations. “” We have already heard from various companies, and this platform for characters with strong individuality. I think that what can be achieved is “reasonable” in that it provides “healing” to the world centered on “Koupen-chan fans”. ”
According to a public relations, when exhibiting at an exhibition called Robodex in January this year, there were many voices requesting commercialization.
VAIO to send to the world
VAIO, which has entered the robot business developed in-house as a new approach in the 5th week, will disseminate Japan’s proud “character culture” to the world with Japanese technology.
Pay attention to the future development of VAIO, which is accelerating toward the world.
Related Links
VAIO official website: https://vaio.com/
Robot general-purpose platform: https://vaio.com/ems/pdf/01.pdf
Illustrator Rurutea Twitter: https://twitter.com/k_r_r_l_l_
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