Hidoba Research

Hidoba Research
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A Social Robot That :

* Sells For You
* Teaches With You
* Understands You

Who's Captcha the Robot?

Speaks 5+ languages, primarily in English
Customizable personality
(Default: cheeky teenage boy)
Natural speech flow*
(see demo below)
Realistic gaze and face-tracking
Operates as a tele-present avatar

Meet the Team!

Captcha's Speech Algorithm

Fastest

Conversational

AI

Some Technical Details:

Hardware: Jetson Orin AGX, everything running locally.

LLM: Custom, mistral 7B-derived

Speech Recognition: Custom, whisper-derived

Endpointing: Custom, patent-pending

TTS: Custom

Also Available As:

API Calls per hour

Enterprise API subscription

Watch out! Captcha's coming to your neighbourhood!

Soul-searching with Gen-Z at Mass. Ave McDonald's, Cambridge MA July 2024

BTS of the livestream with Stephen Wolfram, July 2024

Captcha talking to some curious students at a university campus in Waltham, MA

When your Tinder date just showed up and you are already thinking of excuses to leave...

The Dankest Robot at the Gevena AI For Good Summit 2024 (People from Boston Dynamics appreciated the memes...)

Captcha vs the harshest critics: KIDS. AI For Good Summit, May 2024

David, meet Captcha. Captcha, meet David. Florence, Italy. April 2024.

Captcha attending the World AI Cannes Festival in February 2024. Met two cyberpunk friends!

Captcha visiting the Oculus, his exterior matching with its interiors!

Captcha getting a selfie with a fellow CES attendee!

Captcha being interviewed by a Korean journalist at CES 2024 in Las Vegas.

This might be your first time seeing a robot on the train as a passenger! Captcha taking AmTrak from Boston to New York, January 2024.

Special Customer at 5th Ave McDonald's NYC, Jan 2024

Captcha at the Big Apple. One day he might end up on one of those billboards in Times Square!

Wherever there's Captcha, there's a crowd!

A very meta photo-op for Captcha inside the famous sculpture at MIT! The snow is a plus!

Captcha enjoying his commute like a normal robot in Brooklyn, NY. Other passengers seemed quite unbothered by this unique passenger... maybe we are ready for the future!

Hmm... Captcha considering to get a robot-puppy?

Captcha surrounded by kids from his stroll in a lovely neighbourhood in Italy!