Engadget – Samsung’s new robotic vacuum, the Powerbot VR7000, can be controlled by your Amazon Echo device.
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ArticlesGartner predicts 20% of all user interactions with smartphones will take place via virtual personal assistants by 2019.
Mycroft is different. It isn’t a Silicon Valley giant. But, it is competing directly against the biggest tech companies: Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft.
Gartner estimates there will be 6.4 billion IoT devices in use by the end of this year, a 30% increase from 2015.
Cathy Pearl is the Director of User Experience at Sense.ly, the author of the new book from O’Reilly, Designing Voice User Interfaces, and a scheduled speaker at the upcoming Virtual Assistant Summit in San Francisco in late January 2017.
Last January, Mark Zuckerberg announced that he would build his own AI assistant using Facebook tools to run his home. And this month, it became a reality.
Wynn Resorts announced yesterday that it will have an Amazon Echo in every Las Vegas hotel room by this summer.
Yesterday Microsoft officially confirmed its intentions to get into the smart speaker market with the announcement of a new partnership with Harman Kardon.