Robot with Android and Alexa turns your home into a smart home

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The largest technology companies in the world have launched the conquest of the domestic environment, and very soon we will all have a virtual assistant in our house to enjoy the advantages that this type of devices have available to us.

Several smart home systems are now available, such as the Amazon Echo and Google Home, and it is rumored that Apple will soon be presenting its alternative. But if what you are looking for is a friendlier solution than a simple speaker, you have at your disposal Omate Yumi, a robot for your adorable and useful house.

Omate Yumi integrates Android and Alexa, Amazon's artificial intelligence, which gives it great versatility to offer you personal assistant functions, music center and intelligent control for your home. It is equipped with powerful speakers, so you will have no problem listening to the music as well as with a camera and a touch screen that shows the face of the android and some information when needed.

In order to function, the device connects to Alexa, a cloud-based voice service that provides information, responds to users' questions, reads news and sports results or plays the song or list you ask, among many others Options. All you have to do is ask, and this nice robot will tell you everything you want to know.

In addition, Yumi can also sync with other smart devices, such as your smartphone or Smart TV. With Android, you can make video calls through VoIP applications, surf the web and play video games.

The developers of Omate Yumi, a startup based in China, have relied on crowdfunding to make this invention a reality. At the moment they are far from the $ 30,000 that have been marked as economic target, but still have a month to get them.

If you want to turn your home into a Smart Home thanks to this android, you can buy it on the Indiegogo page at a price of 369 dollars (348 euros at current exchange rate). If the project succeeds in getting ahead and the manufacturer's forecasts are fulfilled, the shipment of the orders will begin from April 2017.