Aido has state-of-the-art custom display technology, an interactive projector system, advanced speech recognition, face detection, an incredible personal AI & seamless integration with all your home automation and security needs.

With Aido, you can:

• Use the interactive projector to project movies, games & other content on a wall. Use gestures to play games or control playback of media.
• Use voice control to call Aido to you and give it commands. Aido has a set of powerful mics that let it listen to your voice, even in noisy environments, and a ball-based navigation system that allows it to traverse your home
• Use Aido’s universal remote to control your home appliances like TV, home theatre system, etc.
• Connect Aido to your smart devices that support Zigbee, Z-Wave or DLNA and control them through Aido.
• For instance, you can ask Aido to reduce the room temperature, and show you who’s at the door (if you have a smart home camera).
• Ask Aido to escort guests from the door into your living room
• Ask Aido to display a recipe over the projector to help you whip up a new dish
• Get Aido to take pictures of your friends at home and post it to your Facebook page
• Ask Aido to download playlists from Spotify and play DJ for your parties
• Read out stories to your kids using its storytelling feature
• Patrol your home when you’re away and send a notification or photograph if there’s an intruder
• Get a reading of temperature, pressure, air quality, etc. across your home

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You can quickly setup Aido through its mobile companion app. We aim to make Aido simple to setup and use.

• Aido, the friendly home robot
• Charger
• Smart appliance kit (optional)
• Smart ball for pet lovers (optional)
• Custom skin kit (optional)
• Charging dock (optional)

We know that there are times when you’d just have Aido on your desk, helping out with chores. Aido comes with a detachable ‘head’ section that can be easily pulled out and placed on a table.

• The tabletop mode for Aido lets you use most of Aido’s functionality, including:
• Use voice commands to control Aido
• Control your TV, home theatre system and more using Aido’s universal remote functionality (note: Aido needs to be in line of sight of the devices)
• Control your smart devices that support standards like Zigbee, Z-Wave, BLE, Wi-Fi & DLNA
• Use the interactive projector for gesture based tasks
• Use the (optional) HD multimedia projector for enjoying media
• Use sensors to trigger alerts in case of fire, smoke or excessive noise

Aido’s tabletop mode has a battery life of approximately 8 hours*.

Having to remember to charge devices is such a chore. One of Aido’s cool features is the smart charging dock.

• When Aido runs low on charge, Aido can automatically detect the charging dock and plug itself in.
• Aido’s dock has a specially designed set of two charging rings, one of positive polarity and the other negative
• The charging rings are designed in a semi-circular fashion to increase probability of touching Aido’s charging circuits, no matter how Aido rolls into the dock
• The charging rings have special circuitry to prevent a short circuit in case it encounters a foreign object
• Once Aido rolls into the dock, the charging rings are activated and drive charge to Aido.

The charging dock is also designed to make it easy for Aido to plug itself into and out of the dock.

For now, you will have to call him by his name Aido to interact with him. Name customization will be available in the future.

You can ask Aido to go to sleep, and he will turn off all functionality barring navigation, haptic sensors and voice recognition. Aido springs back to life when you ask him to wake up or tap him.

Aido’s smart appliance kit allows you to control appliances that do not have interactive capabilities built in. Aido’s smart appliance kit consists of:

3 smart plugs: Plug your appliance like an A/C or a water heater into the smart plug. Aido let’s you turn them on or off, schedule timings or set triggers.  For example, you can program Aido to turn on the water heater 10 minutes before your alarm goes off in the morning.  If you forget to turn it off, Aido can send a notification on your companion iOS/Android app, and and you can turn off the appliance using the app.

2 smart bulbs: Replace your regular bulbs with the smart bulbs, and control features like light dimming or turning lights on/off using Aido. For example, you can program lights to dim automatically when you turn the TV on or after a certain time of the day or by sensing ambient light.

Aido comes with an optional smart ball accessory for pet lovers. You can control the ball using voice commands or through Aido’s companion app on iOS/Android and make it roll around home for your pets to play with.

The smart ball is durable and waterproof so your dog can pick it up in their mouth or drop it his/her water-bowl and it won’t cause any damage.

You can set a lot of Aido’s functionality or view alerts of what’s happening at home using the Aido companion app.

• Aido’s companion app lets you set:
• Patrol paths for Aido to traverse
• Turn on/off connected smart devices
• Get Aido to charge before you’re home
• Design triggers for which you can receive alerts
• Schedule events like movie download/playback at particular times
• Create weekday/weekend routines
• Create preferences for family members

Aido’s companion app lets you view alerts for:

• Change in parameters like air quality, noise, etc.
• Images/video of your home
• Notifications when someone’s at the door (if connected to a smart door camera)
• If you do not have a smart camera, Aido can go and peek through a window, take a photo of the visitor and stream it to your phone.

Aido is designed for everyone: Adults, Kids, Seniors, Families, Geeks and Developers.

Aido has a male gender.

Currently Aido is white. We may have more colors at a later date.

We don’t have the official compatibility listing yet, but popular Android and iOS devices will be supported for the companion app. You can set a lot of Aido’s functionality or view alerts of what’s happening at home using the Aido companion app.

Aido’s companion app lets you set:

• Patrol paths for Aido to traverse
• Turn on/off connected smart devices
• Get Aido to charge before you’re home
• Design triggers for which you can receive alerts
• Schedule events like movie download/playback at particular times
• Create weekday/weekend routines
• Create preferences for family members

Aido’s companion app lets you view alerts for:

• Change in parameters like air quality, noise, etc.
• Images/video of your home
• Notifications when someone’s at the door (if connected to a smart door camera)
• And more

Aido is pretty tough and goes through extensive hardware testing. We do ask that you take reasonable care and avoid hard drops, knocking Aido hard, water, and other situations that could damage Aido. Keep Aido away from long exposure to sunlight.

• Aido’s touchscreen is made of glass, and requires the same caution that you would use with a tablet or phone screen.
• Aido’s ball base can traverse carpets and flat surfaces. We however, recommend that you keep your floor clean for Aido’s mobility to work well. Aido may have problems navigating spills or water on the floor, so we ask that you keep Aido away from areas like bathrooms, and clear up spills quickly.
• Aido is a sophisticated electronic device, so we’d expect you to keep Aido safe from water and coffee spills.

While the smart ball has been designed to withstand drops and shocks, we recommend you roll the smart ball and control it with Aido for the best play experience.

Aido’s speed depends on the friction on the surface he moves on, and whether there are obstacles on the ground. We are still clocking Aido’s speed on a set of surfaces, and will update details on our website.

Docking Aido isn’t easy, and our team had to work through multiple challenges to get this to work well. Our patent pending approach involves three phases to dock Aido:

• Initial ranging is done based on Wi-Fi signal strength tracking and object recognition
• Once Aido reaches the room where the smart dock is, he tracks IR beacons from the smart dock. When the IR beacons are locked, they guide Aido towards the smart dock.
• The smart dock also has a small laser diode. Closer to the dock, Aido tries locking into this signal. This helps Aido judge the orientation and entry into the dock

The easiest way to charge Aido is to use the optional smart charging dock that lets Aido charge autonomously:

Aido’s dock has a specially designed set of two charging rings, one of positive polarity and the other negative

The charging rings are designed in a semi-circular fashion to increase probability of touching Aido’s charging circuits, no matter how Aido rolls into the dock

The charging rings have special circuitry to prevent a short circuit in case it encounters a foreign object

Once Aido rolls into the dock, the charging rings are activated and drive charge to Aido.

Aido’s core system runs on two quad-core 1.6GHz processors, each with 1GB DDR RAM. Aido’s core operating system is a headless version of Ubuntu. We have removed unnecessary drivers & modules that Aido doesn’t need. We are calling this version OpenAido, and will be releasing this back under an open source license so that other robotics solutions can use the same system.

Aido’s Android front-end runs on a Rockwell chip with 512MB RAM. This is a version of Android Lollipop with a custom UI interface for rich interactions with users.

Aido supports 32GB of internal storage.

Aido comes with 5 external USB ports. You can connect a USB drive or a portable hard disk to increase Aido’s storage.

• Linux and Android communicate over a secure VPN at all times.
• If there is a Wi-Fi connection available, both systems connect to it and communicate over this.
• If there is no Wi-Fi network available, the Linux system acts as a WiFi hotspot and the Android system connects to it as a client.

Aido will be providing a standard SDK and APIs for basic control and some user defined programs. All access will be provided through a custom  wrapper to keep Aido secure. Exact details will be released shortly.

Developers will have early access to our SDK, including libraries, headers, documentation, samples for integrating Aido and most importantly, the support of our team. Developers are also the first to receive Aido upon shipping.

When you pre-order an Aido Developer Edition, you will become a full member of our Aido Developers community. Dedicated members of our team will provide additional support to those who enrol in the Aido Developer Community.

Aido has an in-built head mounted interactive projector that lets you engage with your projected content. And it comes with an (optional) HD multimedia projector that is designed for multimedia usage.

• The head mounted interactive projector is designed for quick on/off operations. You could ask Aido to do a Google search and show you results. Since the projector has gesture recognition built in, you can flick to see more results or tap in the air to open a particular link.
• The interactive projector is also of great use in the kitchen. You can ask Aido to show you a recipe, and as you’re cooking, use the swipe gesture to look through instructions as you go along.
• The interactive projector lets you play quick and fun gesture based games.
• The HD multimedia projector is designed for entertainment buffs. The HD multimedia projector lets you watch media by projecting it on a wall at a distance of up to 3.5m. Since Aido can move around on its own, you can ask Aido to project media near where you sit, or call your friends over and play a movie to enjoy with your drinks.

Aido comes with a powerful set of sensors. These let you quantify parameters around your home and instruct Aido to take corrective action, if required. Aido has sensors for:

• Air Quality
• Temperature
• Humidity
• Noise
• Ambient Light
• Pressure
• Gravity (4-axis G-sensor)

Aido’s air quality sensor measures real indoor pollution rather than just CO2 levels. The temperature sensor lets you measure and track temperature for each room or area in the house. Aido’s light sensor tracks ambient light and duration. The sensor data can be used in the Task Automator to trigger functions (Eg: turn heater on when temperature dips below a certain threshold).

Aido’s sensors also serve well in its patrol mode. You can set Aido to patrol your home when you aren’t around. Aido can take regular readings of the vital statistics of your home. It can also look for signs of unusual activity and send you a notification if there’s an intruder or if there’s fire/smoke.

Aido has a unique dual-battery design – half lead-acid and half nickel-cadmium, to balance the two requirements of a battery for a device like this –

a) it should charge fast and b) it should retain power over long periods of time.

Both battery packs are in hot standby mode. Aido also has a patent pending power management board. Aido’s battery should last about 8 hours* on regular usage, including 2 hours* of mobility

Our team has studied a lot of research material about how robots and humans interact. We designed the UI to be a friendly, approachable and communicative interface.

The UI is also designed so that you can see it from across the room. We expect that a lot of the interactions with Aido happen over voice, so the UI accommodates various possibilities of using voice, gestures and touch. The UI layer is built on top of Android, so all your Google Play Store apps will run without problems on Aido.

The interactive projector uses the infrared blaster to illuminate the area in front of the projector. It also has an IR camera detector built in. When you make gestures in front of the interactive projector, your arm bounces off infrared rays that the detector reads, and depending on the UI state, it recognizes actions.

We believe that voice will play a huge role in making robots more useful. When designing Aido, we focused on ensuring that users could talk to Aido, and Aido could reply back in a conversational & more personal manner:

• Aido has a 6 mic array set around a circular base with a dedicated hardware chip for listening to human voice, even in noisy environments. It is the same design that many smart TVs use to allow users to control functions using voice.
• Aido uses a leading 3rd party speech engine based on a custom deep neural net architecture for continuous speech recognition.
• This allows Aido to listen to commands and parse them into instructions that Aido understands.

Image or object recognition is key for a autonomous robot like Aido. Aido needs to identify items when navigating and decide real time how to avoid them when it’s moving. We scouted around for software to help with this, and chose Uncanny vision’s offline image recognition library to power Aido’s image recognition.

Uncanny Vision is a technology firm based out of Japan and India that has over 25 years of experience in the Computer Vision area. Some key advantages are:

• Uncanny Vision’s image recognition library recognizes over 3000 objects
• The library runs offline with a low memory footprint. Aido is able to recognize objects up to 10x faster than conventional methods using SIMD instructions. Offline recognition also cuts out network latency and makes the image recognition more stable.
• Another advantage of the low latency is that it allows Aido to do a frame-by-frame comparison of visual input. Using this, Aido is able to figure out if there are moving objects in the frame. If these are in the path it has to traverse, Aido stops to avoid a collision.

If you were to look out your at this moment, you might see a landscape that includes a number of trees, a few buildings, pedestrians on the road and a dustbin. Turning your gaze the other direction, you may see a lake, a bus stop, a dog, and an arriving Bus. Even though you are seeing objects, what you see in each view is more than just a group of objects—it is a composite item we label a “scene.”.

Object recognition and face recognition algorithms have reached near human performance in good lighting.

Till a while ago, computer vision was largely limited to recognizing individual objects. Current advances in artificial intelligence have created software capable of recognizing and describing the content of photographs and videos with far greater accuracy than ever before, sometimes even mimicking human levels of understanding.

This new class of software called “Scene Recognition” can teach itself to identify entire scenes: a group of young men playing football, for example, or a group of pedestrians waiting to cross the road. The software then writes a caption in English describing the picture. Compared with human observations the computer-written descriptions are surprisingly accurate.

With scene recognition, you’re trying to tell the story behind the image. A natural scene will be very complex, and you want to pick out the most important objects in the image. Aido uses libraries from a leading Vision Vendor to do scene recognition.

he Task Automator presents the user with an array of built-in options to use in a visual interface.

• With the Task Automator, you can:
• Select predefined task flows from a large list of templates
• Add and save your own template list
• Share and download new task flows from the Android Store

The Task Automator can accommodate just about any type of simple or complex automation, without the need to create batch files or write complicated scripts, as it uses a visual interface that lets you simply select and combine action to fit your needs. There is a wide range of actions for working with files, Internet, ftp, email, datasets and much more.

Conditional actions allow you to execute tasks automatically when triggered (eg. if an intruder is detected, if your internet connection goes down, if there is new email, and more). You can choose to receive alerts on your mobile phone app as well.

Examples include

• Displaying an alert when you receive an email from a particular friend
• Automatically project your news feed 10 minutes after your alarm goes off
• Capture and send you a photograph if an intruder alert is triggered

Aido’s visual Task Automator lets you create actions using simple drag-and-drop. You can trigger actions on an event or on a particular day.

You can create schedules for weekdays, weekends, holidays or any specific pattern you choose (wake up half an hour earlier on Monday if you choose to).

For example, you can set a weekday schedule on Aido to:

• Turn the alarm on at 6:30 AM. You can program it to show a video of your favourite holiday spot, play music or even turn the lights on gradually to wake you up.
• Turn on the water heater 10 minutes before the alarm
• Check your calendar and let you know of any traffic alerts in the morning you should be aware of
• Automatically patrol home every hour after you’ve left for office
• Send alerts to you in case of an intruder, fire, smoke or excessive noise

In the Task Automator, Aido supports integration to:

• All smart devices (Aido connects using Zigbee, BLE, Wi-Fi, Z-Wave or DLNA)
• A vast suite of devices with an infrared remote control (including TV, microwaves, music systems, and more)
• Integration of other appliances using the optional smart plugs (plug your water heater into the smart plug and control it using Aido)
• Online services using IFTTT

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No. Though you can switch between the two projectors.

Aido supports Zigbee, DLNA, WiFi, Z-Wave*, Bluetooth and IR.

*Z-Wave support may vary as per your country.

Together, these let Aido communicate with over 10000 smart devices.

As of now, Aido does not support Apple’s Homekit. We are working on the issue.

Aido can control over 10,000 smart home appliances using Wifi, BLE, ZigBee and Z-Wave*.

• Aido can talk to various devices*, including:
• DVD/VCR
• CD changer
• Laserdisc player
• Amplifier
• Tape deck
• Game console
• Computer
• Light controller
• Climate controller
• Cable box
• Satellite box
• Smart Cookers
• Refrigerator
• Washing machine
• stoves and more

*Depending on standards supported by the devices. Z-Wave Plus may not be supported in all countries. Please check what standard your device supports. Get back to us if you want any more details.

Aido is engineered to deliver amazing rich, detailed audio. A 2″ woofer, dual tweeters and 10-watt amplifier generate an incredible spacious sound for all types of sound effects and music.

This is a priority area for us. We will be focusing on making this to work.

This is a priority area for us, and we will be focusing on getting this to work.

Aido has a unique dual-battery design – half lead-acid and half nickel-cadmium, to balance the two requirements of a battery for a device like this – a) it should charge fast and b) it should retain power over long periods of time.

Aido’s battery should last about 8 hours* on regular usage, including 2 hours* of mobility

When Aido is charged the first time, it will take up to 12 hours to charge fully. Subsequently, we expect Aido to take about 4-5 hours to charge on a daily basis. We recommend using Aido’s optional smart dock to have Aido charged through the night.

We recommend using Aido’s smart dock to ensure that Aido is adequately charged through the night.

Dolphins are highly social animals, living in groups. Dolphins teach, learn and cooperate amongst themselves. They are known to form strong bonds, not only with their own species, but also with others.

In addition to the behavioral aspects of dolphins, which we felt were a great fit with what Aido stood for, we took inspiration from the shape of the dolphins.

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A mobile Boombox and home theater system

Aido is also engineered to deliver amazing rich, detailed audio. A 2” woofer, dual tweeters and a 10-watt amplifier generate an incredible spacious sound for all types of sound effects and music.

Integrates with all streaming music sites

Let Aido set the mood with your ‘Honey I’m home and I need to relax’ playlist.

Powerful Video Projector

Never ever miss a football game. Aido can project it onto the nearest wall while you prepare lunch for the family.

Read Aloud Mode

Aido can read ebooks to you while you are engaged in your latest home improvement project. Read bedtime stories to your children when you are away from home on a business trip.

Interactive gaming

Try and match your wits against Aido in an interactive game of chess. Aido can project game boards which you can interact with.

Aido runs Android as its front end, so it supports all accounts that Android does.

Aido runs Android as its front end, so it supports all formats that Android does.

No. Aido without the HD multimedia projector is a joy to have around home as well. You can still use the head projector, home theatre system and music/movie streaming for entertainment. Aido will support gesture based interactive gaming, full mobility, the table top mode and the full range of Android apps.

You will miss out on the ability to project and watch movies with your friends, being able to read your newsfeed through the projector and other fun things with the projector.

Aido comes with a wide range of apps to help at home:

Story Teller – Story Teller is an iMarvel storybooks customised for interactive projector /lighting effects. This brings to life your child’s favourite fairy tales, folk stories and timeless classics with brilliant illustrations, read along text and voice narration that’s perfect for kids of all ages – no parents required! Little ones will love the vivid storytelling through the interactive books that actually read themselves. This comes loaded with a diverse collection of stories from across the world. Cinderella, Snow White,The Ugly Duckling, Hansel and Gretel, The Three Little Pigs, Jack and the Beanstalk and Little Red Riding Hood are some of the classic fairy tale titles available. There is a large collection of academic/educational books.

Party mixer & DJ – Access and mix millions of tracks from SoundCloud and Deezer. Realize professional-like transitions thanks to the crossfader.

Match the beats manually or click on the Sync button to synchronize the bpm (beats per minute) of your tracks and achieve seamless transitions. Add all the effects you like and keep reinventing the music you love! Scratch or add special DJ sound effects to enrich your mix and create new sounds! Enjoy a wide range of free DJ sound effects FX: scratch,  anger, pitch, equalizer, cue point, loop, echo. You can also get more awesome DJ effects via our in-app Store! Finally, record your mixes and share them with your friends on Facebook, Twitter and Google+ thanks to the “Sharing” feature. You can record up to a whole hour of mixing.

Recipe Manager – Sync with your Epicurious and AllRecipes account. Scan phone bookmarks and import recipe from your favorite food blogs View photos of the final dish. Switch to step-by-step mode, see what you should be doing now.Diet Whiz – Diet Whiz is a personal health logbook that helps you keep track of the foods you eat every day. Diet Whiz calculates the elements of your diet, such as fat, carbohydrates, cholesterol, fibre, and calcium. At the end of the day, record your daily food intake by choosing what you ate from Diet Whiz’s comprehensive list. You’ll get a pie chart showing the nutritional value of your diet. The program also lets you enter custom foods and their nutritional information.

Grocery Helper – Helps you create and manage multiple grocery lists, making it the perfect tool for those who shop at various food stores or specialty shops. You can make a master list of items you frequently buy and add them to any grocery list. Print the grocery list, Sync it with your phone, and take it with you to the store.

Timer Wizard – You can set timers for each of the burners on your stove separately and your oven — as well as for other domestic tasks, such as the end of your washer and dryer cycles. The greatest thing about Kitchen Timer is that you can set custom timers for foods you cook often.

BarTender – BarWare, which lets you search 1000 drink recipes for various liquors, garnishes, and mix- ers. It also includes an instructional bar guide, a bar dictionary, and a printing feature.

Virtual Wine manager – If you’re a wine enthusiast with your own collection, then Virtual Wine Manager is the pro- gram for you. This app keeps track of every bottle, lets you import a picture of the bottle’s label, and even alerts you when your wine has reached maturity. On top of that, you can calculate the value of your wine cellar and individual bottles.

House Repairs and Maintenance – Home Repairs alerts you to items in your home that need repair or inspection according to a schedule set by you. Choose from the application’s prede ned list of suggested items and how to care for them or create your own. Maintain a service history for all items along with details of the repairman, cost and date last serviced. You will never need to wonder when it was that you last replaced the shingles on the roof. It is your one-stop shop for all your home’s maintenance needs. Be visually alerted to the items needing service and due date Maintain service history of each item with service company information, date performed and cost.

Follow suggested time period for inspection/repair of each item or set your own time schedule and more.

Ebook Reader – Aido comes pre-loaded with Aldiko, Google Play Books and Kindle

Personal Research Assistant – We’ve all been there many times before. You want to write a new blog post, work on an assignment or simply just need some research done on a particular topic

PRA is an easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. PRA collects all your research in a single, searchable interface. You can add PDFs, images, audio and video  les, snapshots of web pages, and really anything else. PRA automatically indexes the full-text content of your library, enabling you to find exactly what you’re looking for.

Note: InGen Dynamics may change the list of preloaded apps before shipping at its discretion.

Yes, we will have the Aido companion app available for iPhones and Android phones.

The Task Automator presents the user with an array of built-in options to use in a visual interface.

With the Task Automator, you can:

• Select predefined task flows from a large list of templates
• Add and save your own template list
• Share and download new task flows from the Android Store

The Task Automator can accommodate just about any type of simple or complex automation, without the need to create batch files or write complicated scripts, as it uses a visual interface that lets you simply select and combine action to fit your needs. There is a wide range of actions for working with files, internet, ftp, email, datasets and much more.

Conditional actions allow you to execute tasks automatically when triggered (eg. if an intruder is detected, if your internet connection goes down, if there is new email, and more). You can choose to receive alerts on your mobile phone app as well.

Examples include

• Displaying an alert when you receive an email from a particular friend
• Automatically project your news feed 10 minutes after your alarm goes off
• Capture and send you a photograph if an intruder alert is triggered

We chose a special mobility design for Aido’s mobility as it suited the home environment well:

• With a single ball base and support legs, Aido is able to move out of the way quickly if it bumps into something.
• By balancing forces between Aido’s body and the ball, Aido can navigate floors & even carpets.
• Aido is never really still, even when it is standing.

Aido uses a combination of technologies to determine his location at home:

• When Aido is powered up the first time, he fingerprints Wi-Fi signals across the house. He uses Wi-Fi signal strength as the primary marker to identify different rooms.
• Aido will prompt you with list of Wi-Fi spots he identifies. You can select  the Wi-Fi spots at your home, and guide Aido to the physical locations of the WiFi acess points.
• Aido also uses IR and object recognition to build a topographic map of your house, including elements like furniture, doors  & structure of rooms. Aido maintains these in a navigation database.
• Before moving, Aido also does a frame-by-frame evaluation of the room to determine if there are moving objects, or if anything has changed.
• Aido continually updates the database entries for all recognized and unrecognized obstacles.

Aido does a Wi-Fi scan and builds a database of Wi-Fi signals and strengths (Aido does not store any sensitive data like passwords or what is being communicated. He only uses Wi-Fi signals to build a map of your home) when you first turn him on.

• You can setup waypoints by taking Aido to various spots at home. For example, you can get Aido to your kitchen and mark a spot as ‘Kitchen’. Aido stores this entry with a Wi-Fi fingerprint, so it can navigate there later if required.
• When you ask Aido to navigate between rooms, he builds a path between way points.
• Aido also uses IR and object recognition to build a topographic map of your house, including elements like furniture, doors  & structure of rooms. Aido maintains these in a navigation database. Aido judges the space between obstacles, and if it is sufficient for him to traverse, will plot a path between them.

Note: Aido can’t climb steps. Aido’s inbuilt edge detector warns him if there is a steep change in elevation ahead, and he will stop before he reaches the edge.

Aido uses a combination of technologies to detect obstacles:

• Aido uses IR and object recognition to build a topographic map of your house, including elements like furniture, doors  & structure of rooms. Aido maintains these in a navigation database. He judges the space between obstacles, and if it is sufficient for him to traverse, will plot a path between them.
• When you ask Aido to move, or if Aido needs to patrol, Aido does a constant frame-by-frame visual comparison for moving objects like pets or people as well as stationary objects. If Aido finds a moving object nearby, he will wait for it to move out of the way before proceeding.
• Aido has sophisticated edge detection built in that prevents him from spinning uselessly when he encounters an intractable obstacle like a staircase. Edge detection also allows Aido to course correct around obstacles like chairs & tables.

ou can set up waypoints or end points at home the first time you get Aido home. For example, by setting up an end point as main door, you can ask Aido to get the door. With a waypoint in the kitchen, you can ask Aido to get to the kitchen. And so on.

• Once the way points are set, you can set specific patrol paths as Aido’s beat at specific times.
• Aido also listens keenly to events like glass breaking or explosions and can navigate to the location and send photos and alerts.
• We also factored in use cases where people may be walking around home, or Aido has to navigate around pets prancing at home. Aido waits for the person or pet to move out of its path.

In case Aido is pushed accidentally, Aido tries self-balancing on its base.

Aido’s mobility can accommodate change in flooring and slight changes in elevation. Aido gently rolls off the carpet onto your floor.

Aido uses SSL encryption to secure personal data sent to and from the cloud; Aido uses 256-bit AES encryption in the cloud; and digital certificates are used to authenticate devices.

The Aido SDK requires knowledge of the Python and C programming languages, and knowledge of how to build Android apps.

Aido only collects data it needs, keeps it encrypted, and doesn’t transmit any personal data back to our servers. All sensitive data like passwords are encrypted with 256-bit AES encryption to ensure that no one can ever gain access to them. Aido may collect some data anonymously for purposes of improving the product. You will have control of how much data Aido shares with us and can turn off sharing if you like.

Aido robots have cameras and microphones that are used to interact with users and to provide the photography and messaging applications. The only way for a remote user to enable the camera or microphone is through an authenticated Aido app on their mobile. Aido’s user interface makes it very clear to a user when they are engaged in a video or audio chat with others.

We have an amazing team working hard on Aido over the last couple of years. We started work on Aido by breaking up a lot of challenges into smaller components, and figuring out how to best tackle these.

We used a combination of three approaches for building Aido:
Open source: Instead of beginning from ground zero, we scoured open source projects to see what we could adapt for Aido. For example, Aido’s core operating system runs a modified version of Ubuntu.
Licensing: We scoured the research labs of universities and spoke to startups and found that we could license great technology that would work great with what we wanted to do for Aido. For example, Aido’s object recognition runs software licensed from Uncanny Vision. With this, Aido can recognize over 3000 objects
Custom design: We’ve also been hard at work on custom hardware and software design. Our team has designed custom communication interfaces between Android (that runs Aido’s user interface) and Linux).

While all the features in the video may not make it to the scheduled launch, we will be updating Aido’s software on a regular basis. We will also release a rich set of APIs that will help our developer community extend what Aido is capable of.

We plan to ship Aido around  Q2 of 2023. You will be among the very select few to receive Aido first.

We charge a standard shipping charge of $75 for the US. Customs, duties and other charges may apply for international shipments.

For international customers, you are responsible for any VAT, tariff, duty, taxes, handling fees, brokerage charges, customs clearance charges, etc. required by your country for importing consumer goods.

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InGen Dynamics will offer a 90 day warranty on Aido when it ships. Please note that this will not cover intentional damage.

You can pre-order now on our website!