CES 2017: Baidu family robot a Chinese spin on Amazon Echo


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  • Friday, 06 Jan 2017

Jing Kun, general manager of operating system DuerOS powering a new Baidu digital valet, shows off the “Little Fish” home assistant unit at the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on January 5, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Glenn CHAPMAN

LAS VEGAS: Chinese Internet colossus Baidu is out to make a splash with ‘Little Fish,’ a family robot that is a voice-controlled virtual valet akin to Amazon Echo or Google Home. 

Baidu showed off “Little Fish,” a translation of its Chinese name “Xiaoyu Zaijia,” on Jan 5 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas ahead of its release in China later this year. 

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