MEET MILO

Who is Milo? Milo is a humanoid robot which interacts with autistic children and delivers lessons that helps building social behavior for autistic children.

What is there to know?
Milo is an intelligent and revolutionary robot just to fight autism so that children with autism can face their social awkwardness. Milo is built by a technological company named “Robokind”. With the help of experts and therapists they have formulated “robots4autism” curriculum. This curriculum is based on an experimental research. Experts put research data into the robot and engineers created an intelligence system within the robot so that Milo can teach elementary and middle school age children the understanding and meaning of emotions and expressions and substantiate proper social behavior and responses.

What makes Milo special?

·         Advanced Technology

Engineers put an HD camera so that Milo can see people, objects, motions, facial expressions and gestures. To coordinate the process, there is an internal computer which runs his movement, intelligence and teaching programs. Moreover, there are microphones which listen, speak and record. To make it more realistic and amiable, engineers developed sensors that can detect touch, faces and motion. Milo can further study your children’s reaction and response back according to that.

·       Expressive Humanoid

Milo resembles a human body. You can see the wrinkles in his face when he express and see his mouth moving while talking. To improve engagement, Milo has been powered with ability to move his arms and legs and even he can walk! His facial muscles are built in a way so that children can perceive the robot as another natural human being.

·       CompuCompassion

Compucompassion is the powerful intelligence inside Milo that allows him to detect faces, track motion, recognize speech and voice tone, interacts with people conversationally, analyze interactions and make engagement and teaching decisions.

·         Autism Expert’s Collaboration

To make the robots4autism curriculum convincing enough, robokind started working with world renowned autism experts to define a research based, multi phase curriculum for autism intervention and social skill training.

Many researches have been conducted on social engagement of autistic child and most of them concluded that children interacting with Milo and therapist are engaged 70-80% of the time whereas traditional approaches get only 3-10% of the time.

Surely autism is an affliction. Prevention may not be within our reach; however we can definitely control it through assisting in the most effective way. With the help of technology creation of Milo and using it would be the best possible and affordable start for fighting autism right now.