IBM’s New Robot Will Have Applications for Healthcare and the Home
Luke Cloherty, Editor
Ginni Rometty, IBM Chief Executive, will make a speech tonight at CES 2016 about the company’s new artificial intelligence platform, Watson, which will have applications for the kitchen, the bank, the gym, and the doctor’s office.
The company will announce a collaboration with sportswear manufacturer Under Armour to develop a Watson fitness app and with Whirlpool to create smart kitchen appliances, such as a stove that suggests recipes to cook.
The company is also to announce a collaboration with Medtronic that could help sufferers manage their diabetes, reports Forbes.
Forbes writer Matthew Herper notes “… in health is that there’s been a lot of talk about promise, but not a lot of talk about what will make technologies work in health care (sic), an environment where beta testing is often prohibited by the Hippocratic oath”.
Medtronic currently has a device that sends blood sugar data to a smartphone on the market and the Watson software is an app that, according to Herper “In theory, could make that stream of data useful”.
January 7, 2016
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