Here is a cat like robot designed for people who are lonely. Fribo listens to what goes on in your home and sends messages to the ones owned by your friends. Fribo is designed with user privacy in mind but can tell people what their friends are doing at home based on sounds.
Fribo is meant to trigger follow-up social interactions. It can recognize noises from a vacuum cleaner, microwave, washing machine, and more.
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