At the Samsung's annual Developer Conference in San Francisco, the company introduced a prototype "digital personal assistant" called Otto similar to Amazon Echo. Samsung said the Otto is a "reference design" and won't be available anytime soon. Instead it will be used by developers to introduce other concepts of home automation.
Many companies are developing products for the smart home and being able to walk into a room and say "lights on," without having to locate the wall switch will be very useful. Changing the room temperature without having to physically get off your couch or touch the thermostat would be pretty neat.
Otto has a rotating head that swivels and moves up and down which presumably will be useful to give it a little personality. The rotating head has an HD camera that can be used for facial recognition. It might be able to recognize who's talking or entering the room and respond accordingly. Otto could also be useful as a security camera to detect an intruder walking into a room if the front door was locked and none of the owners mobile phones were in range. Otto could send out a text message with an attached photo.
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