One New Friend Request from Robot

What’s the Latest Development?

With the number of people on Facebook, it’s likely that you’ll receive friend requests from people you aren’t exactly sure you know. Now there’s a robot, developed by the London based Robosavvy, that wants to be your friend on Facebook. Once you accept its friend request, it uses an online face recognition program to match a person’s appearance to their profile. The robot can then identify the person and call them by their name. The robot also uses a person’s listed musical interests to play their favorite music and dance to it.

What’s the Big Idea?

While the Robosavvy is very basic in its first incarnation, “it’s able to seem smart by using web services and mining online data. The team hopes to develop its voice recognition capabilities to allow it to tell interactive stories that incorporate a person’s answers into the plot.” While it doesn’t necessarily want to be your friend, it has been developed to be “useful in museums and to greet people in company reception areas.” So you may not end up posting on its wall or sharing your vacation photos with it, but it very well may by your next tour guide.

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