Seoul and Santa Monica-based start-up AKA Study has brought its flagship product, robotic language teacher Musio, from the crowdfunding platform to market. The $900 robot uses proprietary artificial intelligence to engage with and recognise users, identify gaps in vocabulary and suggest topics to review, as well as working in conjunction with materials developed by educational publisher Gakken. It has gone on sale in Japan and the company hopes eventually to expand its uses beyond education. “AI is a very powerful tool for teaching children how to learn languages,” says CEO Kim Young-jae.
Seoul and Santa Monica-based start-up AKA Study has brought its flagship product, robotic language teacher Musio, from the crowdfunding platform to market. The $900 robot uses proprietary artificial intelligence to engage with and recognise users, identify gaps in vocabulary and suggest topics to review, as well as working in conjunction with materials developed by educational publisher Gakken. It has gone on sale in Japan and the company hopes eventually to expand its uses beyond education. CEO Raymond Jung said Musio can become a companion to users, while AKA Study plans to make its proprietary AI engines available to third-party developers.