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Nick: Researchers at MIT are working to develop a set of algorithms and a robot to help in everyday errands. In about two years the researchers hoped to have the Ieta robot mounted onto the dashboards of cars.
Carlo: Ieta will learn about your goals, your mood and also what day it is. So for after a week, for instance, it will figure out by itself where home and where work is. And then it will make in a very unobtrusive way possible suggestions so you might know that there is a very big traffic jam or there is a street fair on the street that you every day and every morning take to work and the it might suggest avoiding it. Or might infer something from your preferred gas station in the low gas condition in your car. In just making unobtrusive suggestion that you might want to stop there.
Nick: The project is a collaboration between MIT’s sensible City Lab, the personal robotics group in the MIT media lab and Volkswagen group of Americas Electronics Research Lab. The technology is still being tested and the robot isn’t finish but once it is, the idea is to mount in the dash of a car. It can then interact with the driver and observe like if the kids are at the back sit then maybe the driver is taking them to school. According to researchers, the idea is to go beyond inputting a destination into a GPS but to act as a driving companion. Within two weeks Ieta learns the different sections of town and preferred activities. After a month for example, Ieta will know that when you are leaving work on a certain day, you’d like to go in the grocery store. On that day, if it notices that your fuel level is low then it’ll reroute you to a gas station along the away. And then leaving the grocery store it’ll divert you around the street fair that is going on down town.
Assaf: Bringing in this information to the driver and processing it can allow the drivers say to save fuel, to save time, to avoid congestion, to not only get from place to place faster but help the whole city to function better.
Nick: Ieta will first be installed on Audis within the next two years but pricing has not been finalized. Reporting from MIT in Cambridge, I’m Nick Barber, IDG New Service.
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