JIBO

[ORAC]

Crowd-funded home robot...

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Family Robot Jibo Skyrockets Past $600,000 Within 72 Hours on Indiegogo (http://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2014/07/44568-family-robot-jibo-skyrockets-past-600000-within-72-hours-indiegogo/)

Meet Jibo, the cute social robot that knows the family (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25881-meet-jibo-the-cute-social-robot-that-knows-the-family.html)

Could Jibo Developer Cynthia Breazeal Be The Steve Wozniak Of Robots? (http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryancalo/2014/07/17/could-cynthia-breazeal-prove-the-steve-wozniak-of-robots/)

[Booglebox]

Nice, but I will only buy one if it comes with the voice of HAL 9000.

[BOAC]

If the one with the long black hair is Jibo I want one, and to hell with the 'family'..........

[mixture]

Hmmm....

Pass me the salt because I want to take a very large pinch.

I shall duly reserve my final judgement until real life examples are out there free of fluffy marketing.