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Participate in the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Children's Day again this year! More than 500 elementary and junior high school students interacted with the artificial intelligence robot Kibiro, and the FRONTEO booth was a great success!

2016/8/15
Corporate Communication Department
"Children's Kasumigaseki Tour Day" sponsored by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry will be held for two days from July 2016th (Wednesday) to 7th (Thursday), 27, where ministries and agencies will collaborate to explain operations and tour the ministry. We exhibited for the second time on "Children's Day" following last year.This year's Children's Day is a large gathering of cutting-edge technologies that allow you to experience the future, such as solar car work, programming experience, and contact with robots. It is an event where you can experience and learn about "Japan of the future" and "self of the future", and many elementary and junior high school students visited the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.This year's FRONTEO exhibition booth is designed with the image of a future laboratory. FRONTEO employees welcomed the children as researchers in white coats and engineers in blue jumpsuits.And the highlight of this year is two experience contents that you can interact with "artificial intelligence robot Kibiro".A total of more than 28 children experienced it in 2 days !!

A very successful booth with children and parents

The first of the experience contents is a recommendation experience by artificial intelligence entitled "Let's recommend it to Kibiro!".When children operate the tablet and select up to three books that they like or find interesting from the best-selling children's books, Kibiro equipped with artificial intelligence KIBIT originally developed by FRONTEO Based on the information of the selected book, it will recommend the perfect book for writing your impressions of reading during the summer vacation.The children seem to be curious about the book Kibiro chose.In addition, through a mini-control by Kibiro and researchers, we were able to have children enjoy learning about artificial intelligence.

Let Kibiro recommend the book that suits you best!

 

I'm also curious about books recommended by my friends

<Children's impressions>
  • 10 years old (girl) "I thought it was a robot, but I was able to recommend a book, and I thought it was amazing.The book I wanted to read was right. 』\
  • 9 years old (boy) "I want to read all the recommended books this summer.I like robots, so I want to get a job related to robots in the future. 』\
The second experience content is "Let's chat with Kibiro!".Children can interact with Kibiro by voice.It may take some time to respond, but the response was smoother than I expected, and not only the children but also the parents and guardians who accompanied me were surprised.A Kibiro badge was presented to the children who experienced it as a memorial.

Can you talk well with Kibiro?

 

Let's answer the question from Kibiro!

<Children's impressions>
  • 9 years old (girl) "I enjoyed it because Kibiro talked a lot. 』\
  • 4 years old (boy) "I want to talk again!It was a lot of fun. "
In addition, on the first day, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Motoo Hayashi visited the FRONTEO booth to see the children's experiences.

Minister Hayashi to observe the children's experiences

For the FRONTEO employees who participated, it was a two-day period where they could feel close to the children interacting with Kibiro and learned a lot for future development.We will utilize this valuable experience in the development of future products and services. * Kibiro utilizes the robot platform "Sota" of Vstone Co., Ltd. [Overview of Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Children's Day 2] Date: Wednesday, July 2016, 2016, Thursday, July 7, 27: 28-10: 00 Place: Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Main Building B16F Lecture Hall Exhibit Contents: Artificial Intelligence Robot Let's recommend it to Kibiro!Exhibit booth appearance: Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry website: http://www.meti.go.jp/intro/kids/torikumi/ ▽ Facebook Children's Day event page from this QR code
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