2017年CRI Baidu uses AI to make home assistant robots smarter

 

The robot is now available at JD.com for 3,299 yuan. [Photo: 163.com]

Baidu has announced a new partnership¹ with Chinese start-up zaijia.com, with plans to roll out an AI-based home assistant robot.

Zaijia claims the robot, which can be controlled by a smartphone, will be able to answer questions and perform other tasks with a high-level of accuracy.

Known as "Xiaoya," the new personal-assistant robot is going to retail² for around 32-hundred yuan.

For more on this, Shane Bigham spoke³ earlier with Mike Bastin, director of the China Business Center at Southampton Solent University in the UK.

1 partnership   

n.合作关系，伙伴关系

参考例句：

• The company has gone into partnership with Swiss Bank Corporation.这家公司已经和瑞士银行公司建立合作关系。
• Martin has taken him into general partnership in his company.马丁已让他成为公司的普通合伙人。

2 retail   

v./n.零售；adv.以零售价格

参考例句：

• In this shop they retail tobacco and sweets.这家铺子零售香烟和糖果。
• These shoes retail at 10 yuan a pair.这些鞋子零卖10元一双。

3 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。