(Picture: ‘ApriAlpha V3’ can perceive voice and understand contents)

1. World Class Company – exhibition center tour – TOSHIBA 130th anniversary exhibition ⑥

TOKYO, Japan (AVING Special Report on 'World Class Brand in Japan') -- <Visual News> ‘What can technology do now for the future of the planet?’ In an attempt to answer that question, TOSHIBA presented an attendant robot ‘ApriAlpha V3’ for elderly people in TOSHIBA 130th anniversary exhibition.

‘ApriAlpha V3’ can perceive and identify sounds from every direction by using 6 mikes built inside. It also employs TOSHIBA’s exclusive ‘Voice Signal Processing’, so the robot can respond to greeting of a person and answer a question of another person right away.

Its visual sensor and high speed image processing help to identify color and textures of the clothes that people wear. If he meets a person wearing particular clothes that he already has information, he starts to follow him and stops when he reaches the person. When he misses the person, he examines the information again.

<AVING Special Report Team in Tokyo: Editor&Publisher, Kevin Choi, Phobe Kwon, Annie Park. Hyunok Kim, Jongmin Lee, correspondents of AVING to Japan, edited by Daniel Sirh>