Panasonic Corporation
"cocotto" Child-care Partner Robot
Judges unanimously selected Panasonic's Cocotto as the winner of Home category.
Cocotto is a robot and it is capable of simple conversations, designed as an educational companion for children.
It was an unconventional approach for this robot to have a spherical body, but it is unnecessary for a robot to have a human type of body when you want a child to feel comfortable. Cocotto also has simple but cute expression of eyes and a mouth. Again a robot does not have to have an emotionless face to be a friend.
It is very important for a child of pre-school to develop vocabulary, so one of very important features of Cocotto is to be able to expand conversational ability through AI and mobile application. Judges have faith in Panasonic to commercialize this technology for parents in need.
