Sharp Corporation announced that the company will use OpenAI’s ChatGPT to develop a new app “Story Dreamer” for its robotic phone RoBoHoN, which will be officially launched on June 29th.
▲ Source: Sharp
According to Sharp, the app allows users to set story elements, such as characters and the situations they face, and RoBoHoN will create a story and read it aloud with rich body language. Stories will reference the user’s conversation history and location with the RoBoHoN, and incorporate information from the user’s past travels with the Robohon. This way users can “enjoy original and unique stories,” according to Sharp.
▲ Source: Sharp
In addition, Sharp also announced that it will develop another conversational app based on ChatGPT. Sharp did not disclose the specific details of the app, saying only that it will recruit 100 users for a one-month trial before June 25, and the development of the app will depend on the results of the trial.
It is learned that RoBoHoN is a robot-type phone jointly developed by Sharp and Tomotaka Takahashi, winner of the Robot World Cup for five consecutive times, and will be released in 2021. RoBoHoN uses Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 processor, provides 2GB storage and 16GB storage space, and runs Android 8.1 operating system.
