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gosy has always put "family first"
why the surprise here?
gosy should do alpha trials with total strangers when their beloved family members could benefit, participate, and contribute?
why deprive honored parents the opportunity to assist in creating good for many, many families?
so who cares that gosy used some family members in some of their alpha trials-
I see it as a credit to the Spencers to open their home and beloved, frail 85++ mother to high tech R&D. must have been fun for that 85++ to enjoy and help her daughter and son-in-law.
yes, all our parents get old, frail and die. do we not owe our care to them for having cared for us when we were young and helpless?
what is regrettable, is that Lula Mae's privacy has been invaded big time and to her horror her image is used to condemn gosy for her willing participation.
like most very elderly folks, privacy was her greatest concern in those videos and pictures I expect-
jmo-
mech
ZMP now knows that geckonav is...
...big time breakthrough AI nav software for all mobile robots!
they have seen the 120+ videos and now they have been evaluating a basebot for a couple of months.
don't think the basebot normally includes geckoorient.
geokoorient is really, really cool "sensor fusion" tech
Frost and Sullivan like it:
http://geckosystems.com/investors/third_party.php
orient "sensor fuses" dead reckoning, compass and accelerometer to achieve high accuracy, no accumulated error and low cost.
why? to have a very low cost for the robot to know which direction it is facing. like an internal compass, but more accurate since magnetic compasses "dance" at times due to metal structures, etc.
really, really innovative tech from gosy!
huge markets in family care, professional healthcare and commercial security-
all using basebot tech like ZMP is evaluating!
jmo-
mech
in the ZMP basebot demo video...
AI, like gosy's, is very 21st century-
those longing for long ago simpler days no doubt simply cannot believe that personal companion robots, like the carebot, could possibly enable grandma to stay out of a smelly, bankrupt nursing home.
one civilizations tech is the old generations' "magic," and some believe that any "new" tech is not needed or possible or the inventor is insane or no one can afford it or something else will work just as good.
AI like gosy's is just way too advanced for most folks to believe such is possible.
even with 15+ years of pictures and 120+ public venue videos!
sort of like, "if man was meant to fly, God would have given man wings." we need this new home appliance so we can take better care of our families. refrigerators, electric stoves, microwaves, etc. are all wonderful time and labor saving home appliances.
that is why Bill Gates insists "A Robot in Every Home" in his SciAm article several years ago!
not mo,
his!
mech
wonder what the criteria will be for the carebot beta testers?
family is always first, so probably more family members of employees of gosy. that makes lots of "logistical" sense to me.
then probably family members of suppliers and large investors.
bet some double and triple digit millionaires would rather have a carebot following them around than a "live-in" invading their "space."
that's part of what makes the carebot so great-
family members get to honor the dignity and privacy of their beloved next of kin.
anyone that has genuine, heartfelt concern for family wants the carebots to be sold by the tens, if not hundreds, of thousands!
because nursing homes suck!
Home Sweet Home-
technology should make life better!
for "family first!"
jmo-
mech
as an astute technologist...
...and someone that has genuine, heartfelt family values...
...I am sure you understand that gosy has a "suite" of mobile robot solutions that in "aggregate" enable personal companion mobile robots suitable for eldercare.
the Japanese government is going to pay 90% of robotic assisted care for their elderly beginning in 2015. they have millions and millions of little old ladies deserving of safety, honor, dignity, independence, and security.
that is HUGE!
I wish my parents were still living. they would have loved a carebot to keep them out of an assisted care facility or nursing home.
the choice is obvious- I would rather have a robot following me around nagging me to take my medicine and allowing my beloved relatives and friends to watch me over the internet than be in ANY assisted care or nursing home. I suspect most folks feel the same way.
nursing homes suck!
so I really am very appreciative of the Spencers' 15 years of hard work in developing the carebot!
gotta raise funds for manufacturing and marketing!
jmo-
mech
yeah, in 1964, Spencer decided to do robots,
served in the Army in Vietnam in the late '60's,
got a math degree in 1982,
got an mba in 1987,
founded gosy in 1997,
so he could do stock pinkie plays in 2012?
ROTFLMAO........
jmo-
mech
this professional market research firm states otherwise-
GOSY is 1 of 8 players in-the-world!
The key market players in service robotics industry are Honda Motors (Japan), iRobot (U.S.), AB Electrolux (Sweden), Sony (Japan), Fujitsu (Japan), Toyota (Japan), GeckoSystems (U.S.), and Yujin Robot (South Korea).
what a great article!
the author does a great job explaining why gosy is so far ahead of all the other players.
no wonder gosy is one of 8 leaders in personal companion robots in the world!
most present offerings are laughable.
$400,000 is utterly ridiculous to even suggest as being a "home" robot-
bet the battery life is maybe 15 minutes or one towel folded!!
Spencer has been at this forever-
since high school is my read of his linkedin profile-
bet all the co-founders knew that fetching beer and folding laundry was silly in 1997.
they worked to get self navigation figured out and they did!
then gosy did verbal interaction for medication reminders-
wow!
gosy's AI really, really is world class!
great article!
too bad the author was so busy making fun of the big names that he missed little old gosy.
journalists are not the best market researchers.
I have been real impressed with the breadth and depth of Xena's DD on this board-
jmo-
mech
gosy tech for...
...commercial security could produce licensing revenues sooner than anything else-
high levels of actionable situational awareness is what it is all about-
gosy has that capability!
lots of markets in front of gosy-
the tech is that robust, portable, maintainable, and extensible!
jmo-
mech
dbob, I believe you are right!
Paul Spencer no doubt has 2-3 grown kids and 6-8 grandchildren, and perhaps 2-3 great grandchildren.
if he is smart, he has been most probably moving his gosy stock into his kids, grand kids, and great grand kids names for some years now.
isn't that smart estate planning? to move assets when they will incur little or no tax burden?
same scenario probably holds true for Clark and others-
I sure don't see any "boogeyman" here!
just very smart estate planning-
jmo-
mech
gosy's tactile shroud technology...
...is totally cool!
the covering of the carebot is thermoformed plastic I believe.
it hangs down from the shoulders on 2 perpendicular axes. that gives it easy movement in any direction! all 360 degrees-
now comes the clever part, they use a 2 axis solid state accelerometer to "locate" a hit or brush of any place on the shroud.
this tactile shroud subsystem talks to the geckospio. the spio then uses TCP/IP to inform the geckosuper as to where and how hard the shroud was hit or touched. the super then does the appropriate forwarding to nav, and even chat!
chat can now babble:
"ah been hit on ma arse!" ha!
the carebot does have a "bustle" LOL-
yup, gosy's tactile shroud tech is truly sick-
jmo-
mech
tech companies get revenues from product sales...
...and/or technology licensing.
I recall reading that Spencer has said on numerous occasions that he expected technology licensing revenues to precede revenues from product sales.
I know that some very large companies in the tech sector never "sell a product," but only license their tech to others.
since gosy can do both, cool!
less risk for the investor with multiple markets with the same tech!
with this independent, third party validation of their safepath technologies by ZMP, I suspect the basebot will be a "show pony" in Japan for interested licensees in Japan, China, South Korea, etc.
no doubt Hajime Yasumatsu is working very hard to have lots of pony shows!
definitely looking forward to hearing about them!
jmo-
mech
nursing homes are two edged sword-
on one hand they are very expensive.
"slums" are $3.5-4K per month
national average is $4.5K per month
the economics are so bad that 50% of all nursing homes in FL are in bankruptcy-
now for the sharper edge of the sword-
there is a huge emotional trauma to the beloved parents that sends them into depression and they die in 1-2 years!
whereas, staying in their own home of 20-30+ years, they may live another 5-10 years!
so what does the family, adult children, want?
to keep their beloved parent as safe and comfortable such that their twilight years can be as good as they can be-
nursing homes "tend" to be dumping grounds for family members that are abandoned by their children-
hence the extraordinary means of keeping grandma at home as long as possible.
I do not see the carebot eliminating nursing homes, but putting off that incarceration as long as is possible-
those that have had direct eldercare responsibility understand the foregoing very, very well!
so tech is great from GOSY to put "family first"
jmo-
mech
"portability" is a huge word in software devel-
it also means "re-usable"
and robust
and extensible
and non brittle
and not a singular solution
the fact that gosy migrated their nav from their proprietary platform to a commercial off the shelf Imasen wheelchair is big news.
I suspect the last thing that Imasen ever expected was for gosy's AI to guide their chair better than a person. this reality is got to be very, very difficult for the traditional wheelchair folks to accept...
so now any "decent" power wheelchair can be upgraded to safepath
and wheelchair bases can be cost effectively used for power and locomotion in the professional healthcare and commercial security markets.
wow!
proprietary tech, huge markets and competent management.
gosy is too cheap for sure!
jmo-
mech
gosy has always put "family first"
why the surprise here?
gosy should do alpha trials with total strangers when their beloved family members could benefit, participate, and contribute?
why deprive honored parents the opportunity to assist in creating good for many, many families?
so who cares that gosy used some family members in some of their alpha trials-
I see it as a credit to the Spencers to open their home and beloved, frail 85++ mother to high tech R&D. must have been fun for that 85++ to enjoy and help her daughter and son-in-law.
yes, all our parents get old, frail and die. do we not owe our care to them for having cared for us when we were young and helpless?
what is regrettable, is that Lula Mae's privacy has been invaded big time and to her horror her image is used to condemn gosy for her willing participation.
like most very elderly folks, privacy was her greatest concern in those videos and pictures I expect-
jmo-
mech
gosy is ready to manufacture and market...
...their personal companion robots, the carebot.
no one in the world has sold any personal companion robots, at all, much less as advanced as the carebot.
hence, gosy has "first mover" advantage in a HUGE market.
Spencer is to be applauded for his many years preparing for this "family first" marketplace.
iRobot's AVA?
just a very, very expensive "software development" platform according to their website-
jmo-
mech
geckochat is really extraordinary...
...it is a verbal interface for the carebot and a great upgrade for the safepath wheelchair.
it is true AI with natural language processing (NLP) using forward chaining if/then/else written in a mature AI language, prolog.
the microphone "array" is super cool, too. it improves the signal to noise dramatically and enables the voice recognition software to recognize words such that the NLP of AI engine can reliably "recognize" predetermined phrases and/or words.
the family gets to customize this interface and tailor it exactly for the needs and benefits of their beloved family member.
so the voice synthesis must be clear and loud enough to be readily heard and understood by the carereceiver.
wow!
not a simple system. less complex than the safepath tech, but...
and then there is geckoscheduler...
wonder when ZMP is going to evaluate the full blown boogie? a carebot?
prototypes tend to be delicate. shipping could be a problem-
in conclusion, geckochat is fundamental and I don't see verbal interaction, for monologues and/or dialogues, on anyone else's personal companion robot.
gosy has much, much more than safepath to license-
I agree with Spencer, I think licensing revenues will easily precede product sales-
jmo-
mech
AI, like gosy's, is very 21st century-
those longing for long ago simpler days no doubt simply cannot believe that personal companion robots, like the carebot, could possibly enable grandma to stay out of a smelly, bankrupt nursing home.
one civilizations tech is the old generations' "magic," and some believe that any "new" tech is not needed or possible or the inventor is insane or no one can afford it or something else will work just as good.
AI like gosy's is just way too advanced for most folks to believe such is possible.
even with 15+ years of pictures and 120+ public venue videos!
sort of like, "if man was meant to fly, God would have given man wings." we need this new home appliance so we can take better care of our families. refrigerators, electric stoves, microwaves, etc. are all wonderful time and labor saving home appliances.
that is why Bill Gates insists "A Robot in Every Home" in his SciAm article several years ago!
not mo,
his!
mech
ZMP now knows that geckonav is...
...big time breakthrough AI nav software for all mobile robots!
they have seen the 120+ videos and now they have been evaluating a basebot for a couple of months.
don't think the basebot normally includes geckoorient.
geokoorient is really, really cool "sensor fusion" tech
Frost and Sullivan like it:
http://geckosystems.com/investors/third_party.php
orient "sensor fuses" dead reckoning, compass and accelerometer to achieve high accuracy, no accumulated error and low cost.
why? to have a very low cost for the robot to know which direction it is facing. like an internal compass, but more accurate since magnetic compasses "dance" at times due to metal structures, etc.
really, really innovative tech from gosy!
huge markets in family care, professional healthcare and commercial security-
all using basebot tech like ZMP is evaluating!
jmo-
mech
in the ZMP basebot demo video...
gosy has always put "family first"
why the surprise here?
gosy should do alpha trials with total strangers when their beloved family members could benefit, participate, and contribute?
why deprive honored parents the opportunity to assist in creating good for many, many families?
so who cares that gosy used some family members in some of their alpha trials-
I see it as a credit to the Spencers to open their home and beloved, frail 85++ mother to high tech R&D. must have been fun for that 85++ to enjoy and help her daughter and son-in-law.
yes, all our parents get old, frail and die. do we not owe our care to them for having cared for us when we were young and helpless?
what is regrettable, is that Lula Mae's privacy has been invaded big time and to her horror her image is used to condemn gosy for her willing participation and work with gosy.
all she asked, no doubt, was for her and her sister to be unidentified. elderly folks always deserve to have their privacy respected.
like most very elderly folks, privacy was her greatest concern in those videos and pictures I expect-
jmo-
mech
I guesstimated the basebot cost to be...
$10K, easy. this big marketing investment should also include Hajime Yasumatsu's retainer for his missionary sales work.
I will study the carebot prototypes and see what my guesstimate is there.
probably a lot more!
more compters, voice tracker microphone, ssl stereo amp, more IR, PIR added, sonar added, geckoorient, tactile shroud-
I see very few custom boards. so most are COTS. investors gotta love that!
takes a lot of tech to be capable of cost effective beneficial care for our beloved, but frail, family members.
btw, the carebot does not fall over. the 50-60 lb. battery is between the "ankles" and keeps it "anti-tipover."
really impressed with that independent third party validation of gosy's basebot tech by ZMP.
more to come, I suspect-
jmo-
mech
geckochat is really extraordinary...
...it is a verbal interface for the carebot and a great upgrade for the safepath wheelchair.
it is true AI with natural language processing (NLP) using forward chaining if/then/else written in a mature AI language, prolog.
the microphone "array" is super cool, too. it improves the signal to noise dramatically and enables the voice recognition software to recognize words such that the NLP of AI engine can reliably "recognize" predetermined phrases and/or words.
the family gets to customize this interface and tailor it exactly for the needs and benefits of their beloved family member.
so the voice synthesis must be clear and loud enough to be readily heard and understood by the carereceiver.
wow!
not a simple system. less complex than the safepath tech, but...
and then there is geckoscheduler...
wonder when ZMP is going to evaluate the full blown boogie? a carebot?
prototypes tend to be delicate. shipping could be a problem-
in conclusion, geckochat is fundamental and I don't see verbal interaction, for monologues and/or dialogues, on anyone else's personal companion robot.
no doubt this tech is one more reason why gosy is one of the 8 players in the world!
gosy has much, much more than safepath to license-
I agree with Spencer, I think licensing revenues will easily precede product sales-
jmo-
mech
reviewed irobot's AVA-
sounds like a software development robot platform to me.
that fancy locomotion system is very expensive and difficult to control.
no mention of battery life-
no discussion of hardware architecture.
no discussion of software architecture.
I really like how gosy openly discusses their hardware and software architectures.
more reason to believe that gosy's tech is very, very real.
in mobile robots, it's what a company doesn't talk about that tells you what they can't do.
for example, Ava has no verbal interaction like gosy's geckochat.
for example, Ava has no "sense of time" since no geckoscheduler, etc. etc.
not a very good devel platform-
no sensor/power input/output board either-
sorta thin from a company doing several hundred million dollars annually!
jmo-
mech
AI, like gosy's, is very 21st century-
those longing for long ago simpler days no doubt simply cannot believe that personal companion robots, like the carebot, could possibly enable grandma to stay out of a smelly, bankrupt nursing home.
one civilizations tech is the old generations' "magic," and hee haw that any "new" tech is not needed or possible or the inventor is insane or no one can afford it or something else will work just as good.
they might as well be hee hawing that microwave ovens halt pacemakers when they insist that gosy's breakthrough tech is no good and just a front for a "pump."
AI like gosy's is just way too advanced for most folks to believe such is possible.
sort of like, "if man was meant to fly, God would have given man wings." we need this new home appliance so we can take better care of our families. refrigerators, electric stoves, microwaves, etc. are all wonderful time and labor saving home appliances.
that is why Bill Gates insists "A Robot in Every Home" in his SciAm article several years ago!
not mo,
his!
mech
kezzek, riddle me this:
how many tens of millions of dollars have the other 7 key players spent trying to do what gosy has done?
guesses are okay here-
jmo-
mech
from a breadth and depth of tech, and cost of tech, perspectives; gosy is head and shoulders above these international billion dollar corporations.
jmo-
mech
with careful reading, all the factual basis sufficient is here:
http://geckosystems.com/W_W_W/
jmo-
mech
I honor Spencer's commitment to "family first."
Of course that includes protecting their privacy to the degree possible, and, naturally, what rational person could expect the depraved invasion of privacy by Wallace and MacLeod into their personal family lives?
they would have had no reason to expect Wallace and MacLeod to be so desperate and resort to defaming the deceased by using their memory to depress gosy's stock price for their selfish financial gain.
I agree with Family First.
especially in gosy's focus-
jmo-
mech
the Japanese witnessed this public, unstaged demo, too:
http://geckosystems.com/timeline/?year=2011&video=GeckoSystemsMultiVideo.mov
this was done at the Atlanta marriott?
for visiting Japanese businessmen?
wasn't this demo arranged by Hajime Yasumatsu?
great demo and great work!
BTW, aren't demo videos always "staged?" I mean you have to have a video camera "staged" and "ready."
and who wants to see elderly grandma first thing in the morning on a live streaming video? not only an invasion of privacy, but what loving adult children would allow such invasion of their mother's feeble state?
gosy has great proprietary tech and HUGE markets!
especially in family care!
jmo-
mech
ZMP now knows that geckonav is...
...big time breakthrough AI nav software for all mobile robots!
they have seen the 120+ videos and now they have been evaluating a basebot for a couple of months.
don't think the basebot normally includes geckoorient.
geokoorient is really, really cool "sensor fusion" tech
Frost and Sullivan like it:
http://geckosystems.com/investors/third_party.php
orient "sensor fuses" dead reckoning, compass and accelerometer to achieve high accuracy, no accumulated error and low cost.
why? to have a very low cost for the robot to know which direction it is facing. like an internal compass, but more accurate since magnetic compasses "dance" at times due to metal structures, etc.
really, really innovative tech from gosy!
huge markets in family care, professional healthcare and commercial security-
all using basebot tech like ZMP is evaluating!
jmo-
mech
in the ZMP basebot demo video...
I honor Spencer's commitment to "family first."
Of course that includes protecting their privacy to the degree possible, and, naturally, what rational person could expect the depraved invasion of privacy by Wallace and MacLeod into their personal family lives?
they would have had no reason to expect Wallace and MacLeod to be so desperate and resort to defaming the deceased by using their memory to depress gosy's stock price for their selfish financial gain.
I agree with Family First.
especially in gosy's focus-
jmo-
mech
gosy has always put "family first"
why the surprise here?
gosy should do alpha trials with total strangers when their beloved family members could benefit, participate, and contribute?
why deprive honored parents the opportunity to assist in creating good for many, many families?
so who cares that gosy used some family members in some of their alpha trials-
I see it as a credit to the Spencers to open their home and beloved, frail 85++ mother to high tech R&D. must have been fun for that 85++ to enjoy and help her daughter and son-in-law.
yes, all our parents get old, frail and die. do we not owe our care to them for having cared for us when we were young and helpless?
what is regrettable, is that Lula Mae's privacy has been invaded big time and to her horror her image is used to condemn gosy for her willing participation.
like most very elderly folks, privacy was her greatest concern in those videos and pictures I expect-
I actually like this picture better:
jmo-
mech
it's part of the "actionable situation awareness" that is needed to "know" a "pneatrobable" intruder is about.
sort of like having a dog in the house or yard that hoots when something "new" occurs within their "territory"
just no dog hair or odor in the house! -ha!
or jumping up on grandma and causing her to fall-
really neat stuff here!
sensor fusion is one of gosy's areas of competency. even Frost and Sullivan have said so!
jmo-
mech
this is a very meaningful discussion-
Spencer has been working on personal robots forever-
that is what his linkedin profile indicates, too!
no doubt that the "mobile robot solutions" required for a really cost effective, utilitarian robot does take a long, long time.
I see no other personal robot research group or company with the breadth, depth, and maturity of gosy's suite of inventions!
cool!
jmo-
mech
another nifty gosy tech is...
...geckoprox!
basically prox is a series of passive infra red (PIR) proximity detectors that enable the carebot to "watch" grandma while she is sleeping and see if she is getting out of bed, at say 2AM.
prox talks to spio, spio talks to super and super tells chat to ask grandma if she is okay!
if the family wants to know that grandma is up in the middle of the night, they can be notified all kinds of ways: verbal, phone, email, pager, or whatever-
and then view her using the carebot's webcam!
ain't it awesome?
grandma safe and NOT in a nursing home-
I think that the Japanese are having difficulty in getting their "partner robots" accepted by little old ladies because they haven't enabled their personal robots to interact politely.
that's what the numerous AI savants that gosy has developed does!
jmo-
mech
what is so great about geckoscheduler?
it enables all the geckosavants, such as geckonav and geckochat, to know what day and time it is for scheduled tasks such as medication reminders, etc. etc.
cool stuff and definitely required for any personal companion robot to be useful!
jmo-
mech-
geckochat is really extraordinary...
...it is a verbal interface for the carebot and a great upgrade for the safepath wheelchair.
it is true AI with natural language processing (NLP) using forward chaining if/then/else written in a mature AI language, prolog.
the microphone "array" is super cool, too. it improves the signal to noise dramatically and enables the voice recognition software to recognize words such that the NLP of AI engine can reliably "recognize" predetermined phrases and/or words.
the family gets to customize this interface and tailor it exactly for the needs and benefits of their beloved family member.
so the voice synthesis must be clear and loud enough to be readily heard and understood by the carereceiver.
wow!
not a simple system. less complex than the safepath tech, but...
and then there is geckoscheduler...
wonder when ZMP is going to evaluate the full blown boogie? a carebot?
prototypes tend to be delicate. shipping could be a problem-
in conclusion, geckochat is fundamental and I don't see verbal interaction, for monologues and/or dialogues, on anyone else's personal companion robot.
gosy has much, much more than safepath to license-
I agree with Spencer, I think licensing revenues will easily precede product sales-
jmo-
mech