- AI Butler, Family Assistant, Safety Guard, Tech Playmate - the first home 
service robot brought to customers by Midea delivers everything in a single AI 
package

Smart home global leader Midea introduces XIAOWEI, a robot with intelligent 
technology that can act as an AI Butler, Family Assistant, Safety Guard and 
Tech Playmate. The household robot XIAOWEI is expected to be launched in the 
2nd half of 2022, and will be established as an independent brand WISHUG by 
Midea Group.

The first-generation Midea household robot XIAOWEI stands around one meter 
tall, resembling a childlike effigy with some cute facial features. "We hope 
XIAOWEI can make a family's daily life easier", states Dr. Tang Jian, IEEE 
Fellow, ACM Distinguished Scientist, CIE Fellow, and General Manager of Midea 
AI Innovation Center.

XIAOWEI is able to access smart home appliances and IoT devices; for example, 
when XIAOWEI detects a family member is coming home, it can turn on the lights 
and air conditioner in advance to set a comfortable temperature and humidity 
for their arrival.

XIAOWEI is able to identify family members through the use of face and body 
tracking technology, making the versatile robot a reliable AI housekeeper that 
can also deliver effective all-around security. you can direct the robot to 
visit every corner of the house to keep an eye on happenings and to help 
deliver household items, remote monitoring and safety patrol.

It's worth noting that XIAOWEI is also an excellent playmate; utilizing its 
built-in projector and other advanced technologies it's able to create a mobile 
theater, entertainment center, and interactive play area at home to keep the 
entire family amused.

XIAOWEI robot is able to scan the home in all directions through its built-in 
3D camera, perform autonomous exploration and mapping, identify object 
attributes, and compile semantic information through its 3D Semantic mapping. 
For example, through this technology, the robot XIAOWEI knows which is the sofa 
and where the sofa is, and then you tell him "go to the sofa", and XIAOWEI will 
go to the sofa by himself using its navigation functions by responding to a 
voice command.

"Looking to the future, the household robot brings multiple possibilities." Dr. 
Tang Jian highlighted that household robots, just like smartphones and new 
energy vehicles, are already changing people's lifestyles and will become a 
basic must-have for families.

SOURCE  Midea Group

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