Xiaodu ＂family bucket＂ is here： a variety of new smart end points are launched, and the whole house smart solution is unveiled
China Economic Weekly – Economic Network News On March 18, Baidu’s artificial intelligence brand Xiaodu officially released a number of new smart end point products, including the world’s first active tablet to correct sitting posture – Xiaodu intelligent learning tablet and Xiaodu WiFi6 smart router and other IoT devices, Xiaodu’s whole house intelligent solutions also made a major appearance.
The appearance of Xiaodu’s "family bucket" means that Xiaodu is building a new smart electronics consumer business by empowering a variety of smart end point devices and intelligent solutions for home scenes with Xiaodu’s assistant multi-modal intelligent interaction system as the core.
"We hope that conversational artificial intelligence technology will become the water, electricity and coal in life," said Jing Kun, vice president of Baidu Group, general manager of Baidu Smart Life Group (SLG), and CEO of Xiaodu Technology. Xiaodu Assistant will penetrate into more product categories and scenarios, become the standard of smart devices, and invisible into people’s daily lives. From one room, one screen to 10,000 houses, users only need to move their mouth to call "Xiaodu Xiaodu" to enjoy a warm, interactive, simpler and better experience of intelligent life.
Baidu Group Vice President, Baidu Smart Life Group (SLG) General Manager, Xiaodu Technology CEO Jing Kun
Xiaodu intelligent learning tablet is specially designed for learning, and its eye protection ability has been certified by the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Artificial intelligence is disrupting the traditional education hardware industry, creating more possibilities for functional experience and application scenarios. Xiaodu intelligent learning tablet is equipped with industry-leading artificial intelligence technology, with up to 12 intelligent eye protection mechanisms, general synchronous tutoring, safe and secure online classes, and AI super capabilities.
At present, children’s online classes at home have become the norm, but children face electronic devices for a long time, and the harmful blue light bands generated by electronic screens will inevitably cause damage to their eyesight. In this regard, Xiaodu Smart Learning Tablet has launched up to 12 intelligent eye protection mechanisms.
In response to the concern that harmful blue light can cause visual impairment, Xiaodu intelligent learning tablet revolutionizes the traditional tablet hardware configuration, adopts 10.1-inch FHD anti-blue full high definition screen, and uses exclusive patented technology "Uvision Blue" to truly protect children’s vision from the hardware screen itself.
Xiaodu intelligent learning tablet
The eye protection effect of "Youshi Blue" has been authoritatively certified by the Chinese Academy of Sciences: in the eye protection mode of Xiaodu intelligent learning tablet, the harmful blue light band is as low as 7%, which is lower than the mainstream brands of intelligent learning machines, tutoring machines, student tablets, etc. The eye protection standard refreshes the industry ceiling.
Not only that, the Xiaodu Smart Learning Tablet is the world’s first tablet that actively corrects sitting posture. When a child uses the tablet to sit incorrectly, the Xiaodu Smart Learning Tablet will immediately send a reminder to standardize the learning posture and help children develop a good habit of scientific eye use.
As a smart screen specially designed for learning, Xiaodu Smart Learning Tablet has 1920 * 1200 ultra-high pixels, 8-core chips and 128G large memory, which fully meets children’s hardware needs for learning equipment. Support for synchronous tutoring for all subjects, with free textbooks for all subjects in primary and secondary schools, and you can learn synchronously as soon as you get started. At the same time, the learning content is systematically designed to create a whole process of learning and teaching aids covering pre-class preview, famous teacher follow-up, review and refinement, and homework tutoring to help children develop good learning habits.
In addition to classroom resources, Xiaodu Smart Learning Tablet creates an exclusive learning application mall for children, covering 400 + mainstream learning applications. Xiaodu Smart Learning Tablet also customizes online class functions with 51talk, such as gesture interaction, sitting reminders, setting alarm clock course reminders, etc., to optimize children’s online class experience. Parents can also control and manage the duration of Xiaodu Smart Learning Tablet, view the learning report generated by the system at any time, and escort children to safe and secure online classes, which is more secure and worry-free.
Different from traditional learning machines and tablets, Xiaodu intelligent learning tablets have AI superpowers such as full voice Q & A, fingertip reading and word search. The photo search function allows children to independently explore the answers through Xiaodu when they encounter problems in homework. Industry-leading more than 260 million massive question banks fully meet children’s learning needs.
Xiaodu router
Xiaodu Intelligent Learning Tablet has been jointly recommended by nine mainstream education brands such as Gaotu Classroom and Zuoyebang. At present, Xiaodu Intelligent Learning Tablet has been sold in stock on Xiaodu Mall, JD.com, Tmall, Pinduoduo, Suning.com, Gome and other platforms.
A small router that "can talk" can be easily operated by the whole family
As the country’s leading conversational AI operating system, Xiaodu Assistant’s powerful technical capabilities extend to the IoT field, bringing users smarter home items and making people’s lives more convenient.
At the press conference, Jing Kun released the Xiaodu WiFi6 smart router that "can talk", which can be used by the elderly and children through voice operation. "Xiaodu Xiaodu, how is the live network?" After a voice inquiry, Xiaodu Assistant checked the network situation and responded "The network status is very good, and the mood is free".
This is still a router that "can protect children’s Internet access". Saying "Xiaodu Xiaodu, turn on the router child protection" to the Xiaodu WiFi6 smart router can block unhealthy URLs and applications, create a safe and secure Internet environment for children, and prevent Internet addiction. Parents can also feel more at ease.
In terms of hardware configuration, the Xiaodu WiFi6 smart router has outstanding performance. Gigabit dual-band rate, speed up to 1800Mbps, and supports Mesh networking, supporting 128 device connections. The Xiaodu WiFi6 smart router will be officially pre-sold in April, with a retail price of only 249 yuan.
Shape whole-house intelligence with Xiaodu assistant as the core, and open ecological cooperation with industrial partners
Hardware networking is only the starting point of whole-house intelligence. Xiaodu’s goal of building whole-house intelligence is to enable users to enjoy ubiquitous intelligent assistant services at home with a soft and hard solution. To this end, Xiaodu has created a whole-house intelligent solution that integrates the interaction layer, scene layer and device layer, providing a simpler, more active and warmer smart home life experience.
Small layout whole house intelligence
In the interaction layer, intelligent control is realized with the voice interaction ability of Xiaodu Assistant as the core. Users can start intelligent life at home through two intelligent control modes: first, through the smart screen/smart speaker, to achieve multi-modal interaction including natural language, moving the mouth can make the whole house devices listen to your instructions; second, through the Xiaodu smart central control screen to control a large number of home appliances at will, to achieve the intelligent experience of the whole house.
Based on these two kinds of intelligent control end points, Xiaodu Assistant is like an invisible housekeeper, which can meet the needs of family members in multiple family scenarios, such as intelligent lighting, intelligent security, intelligent health and other scenarios. For example, when Xiaodu intelligent thermometer monitors indoor temperature, humidity and other environmental data in real time, it can intelligently link other devices such as air conditioners and humidifiers according to the data, actively regulate and make the indoor environment constant temperature and humidity. When Xiaodu smart scale/body fat scale is matched with voiceprint recognition, it can record the personal data of different family members, conduct voice queries and broadcasts, and remind you to keep fit and care about your health.
At the equipment level, Xiaodu opens up ecological cooperation, and jointly empowers hardware equipment with more brand partners in the upstream and downstream of the industry chain to create a simpler, more active and warmer smart home life experience. It is reported that the country’s first Xiaodu whole-house smart flagship store has opened in Hangzhou. Jing Kun connected with partner BroadLink at the press conference to unveil the flagship store, and users can experience the convenience and warmth of Xiaodu whole-house smart on the spot.
After years of development, Xiaodu Assistant has been fully upgraded to 6.0, with more than 500 partner brands and more than 47,000 developers in the developer community. As of January 2021, Xiaodu Assistant has 7.50 billion monthly interactions (excluding the number of built-in Xiaodu assistants in Baidu apps), an increase of 838% over June 2018, and the use continues to explode. Thanks to the improvement of user experience, leading AI capabilities and self-developed chips, Xiaodu smart screen shipments will rank first in the global market share in 2020, penetrating into thousands of households and integrating into various scenarios of people’s daily lives.
Xiaodu is committed to building a simple and beautiful intelligent life and becoming a ubiquitous intelligent assistant. This press conference shows Xiaodu’s clear layout in more intelligent products and services, reflecting the huge potential and value of Xiaodu Assistant empowering pan-intelligent end points and multi-scenario applications, and further expanding the strategic territory of intelligent assistants.
Editor: Sun Bing