Empathy is not something one would usually associate with a robot created to work on artificial intelligence. However with Miko+ the game is changing. This robotic companion for children is supposed to provide  a fun-filled experience, containing impressive interactive technology that engages a child and a design that is extremely trendy and child-friendly as per Dr Mona Gajre, in charge of the Pediatric Neurodevelopment Centre in Mumbai, India.

Sneh Vaswani, CEO and founder of emotix, the company that launched Miko+ said that they wanted to develop a social robot that would provide benefits to them on a number of levels, giving children a technology interface that becomes a strong value addition to and not a substitute for the family unit, and that also enables parents to actively participate in their child’s developmental education.

The robot with it’s interactive features provides advanced companionship with learning and development benefits to children and, also enables closer interactions between family members. The empathy-centric social robot can monitored by the parents via an accompanying parental analytics dashboard. This science project can ensure that parents have enough say in managing their children’s responses to the robotic companion. It can actually enhance family bonding time.