Buddy: a French companion robot!

February 26, 2020

A robot at health home, which protects your health home, assists you in everyday life, tells stories to your children or assists your seniors … This is not science fiction, but Buddy, the fruit of the work of a French company Blue Frog Robotics.

It looks like straight out of a cartoon, but it is real. With its good appearance, it can even become a daily essential in the years to come.

Who is Buddy?

BUDDY is a household robot that improves daily life. BUDDY protects the health home, assists with daily life, entertains the family by broadcasting music and videos, serves as an agenda, interfaces with the main health home automation solutions, and allows many other services.It is also the fun and educational companion for children. He tells them stories and participates in interactive games, in particular by teaching them to write and count.Based on an open source technology platform, it allows the developer community to freely implement and distribute new applications.

What can he do?

Communication

Buddy can make a ehealth call while following you: ideal for communicating with friends and family.

It takes care of the youngest, the elderly and people with reduced mobility by providing them with a personal assistant for their daily activities. Among other things, it provides remote and ehealth contact with them.

He reads aloud the messages sent via his dedicated application.

Buddy serves as a calendar, alarm clock and reminder. It reminds of important events and appointments and even stores shopping lists!

Security and health home automation

It is possible to connect to BUDDY from anywhere in the world to monitoring your health home through your eyes.

He patrols the house in the absence of its owners. Thanks to its built-in sensors, it alerts if it detects the start of a fire, flood, burglary or any other abnormal situation.

It monitors appliances and energy consumption.

Playful education

Buddy can memorize children's lessons and check if they have learned their lessons.

It opens up the digital world to children in a fun and educational way.

Assistance to seniors

Buddy is a companion of choice for seniors. He takes care of their well-being at health home by providing them with a presence and assistance. It reminds them of upcoming events, appointments or deliveries.

It detects falls, lack of activity and acts as a memory aidfor taking medication.

By its presence, it reduces loneliness by promoting social ties and canalso simplify older people's access to technologysuch as text or visual messaging.

Other applications

By downloading new apps or adding new accessories, the possibilities are only limited by the imagination of the developers!

Where to find it?

Buddy is available online to the Blue Frog Robotics store.

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