Type Privately Held Number of employees 1-10 employees | Founder Patrick Levy-Rosenthal | |
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Industry Artificial intelligence Founded 2007 London, United Kingdom Headquarters New York City, United States | ||
EmoSPARK is an artificial intelligence console created in London, United Kingdom by Patrick Levy-Rosenthal. The device uses facial recognition and language analysis to evaluate human emotion and convey responsive content according to the emotion. The console measures 90 mm x 90 mm x 90 mm and is cube shaped. It operates on an "Emotional Processing Unit", a microchip that enables the system to create emotional profile graphs of its surroundings. The emotional processing unit is a patent pending technology that is said to create synthesised emotional responses in machines. EmoSPARK was funded through an Indiegogo campaign which aimed to raise $200,000.
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Product overview
EmoSPARK was created by French inventor Patrick Levy-Rosenthal, as an emotionally intelligent artificial life unit for the home that can interact with people. It is powered by Android and can communicate with users through typed input from a computer, tablet, smartphone or TV as well as through spoken commands.
Through the smartphone interface, it is able to gauge a person’s emotions and is reported to have a conversational library of over 2 million sentences. The face-tracking technology identifies users likes and dislikes to categorize their emotional responses to stimuli such as videos and music. The device has an emotional spectrum that is composed of eight emotions which are surprise, sadness, joy, trust, fear, disgust, anger and anticipation.
EmoSPARK monitors a person's facial expressions and emotions through images from an external camera which are then processed through an emotion text analysis and content analysis.
Connectivity
EmoSPARK is able to connect to Facebook and YouTube to present users with content designed to improve their mood or to Wikipedia for collaborative knowledge that can be shared when users ask questions of it. Through Android OS, EmoSPARK is able to be customized with Google Play store apps.
The cube is capable of learning the user’s emotions and responses to types of music or content then uses it in the future for similar emotions. It is also able to emulate the emotions that is has observed and learned which are in the spectrum of primary emotions. The cube is expected to develop its own personality based on the communications it has had with the people using it.
EmoShape
EmoShape is the parent company of EmoSPARK, which was also founded by Levy-Rosenthal. The company developed emotional technology with the EmoSpark cube being their first artificial intelligence console. Patrick Levy-Rosenthal also received the IST Prize in 2005 from the European Council for Applied Science, Technology and Engineering.