Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Jisun Park

Sungsoo Kim

Jaewon Lee

Kyungmin Lee

Kwangyoun Kim

Youngho Han

Sichen Jin

Yeaseul Song

Yohan Lee

Sunkyoung Kim

Minjin Rho

A robot includes: a camera; a driver configured to control a motion of the robot; a memory configured to store information on a plurality of motions of the robot and a plurality of emotional states of a pet corresponding to the plurality of motions of the robot; and a processor connected to the driver, the camera, and the memory, wherein the processor is configured to: obtain at least one image of the pet through the camera, identify, based on the obtained at least one image the pet and the information stored in the memory, an emotional state of the pet from among the plurality of emotional states of the pet, identify, based on the information stored in the memory, a motion of the robot corresponding to the identified emotional state, from among the plurality of motions, and control the driver to cause the robot to perform the identified motion of the robot.

Robot for expressing emotional state of pet and control method thereof

An electronic device is disclosed. The present electronic device comprises: a voice receiving unit; and a processor, wherein the processor: when a user's voice is received through the voice receiving unit, determines an accumulation level of utterance history information corresponding to the characteristics of the user's voice; when the accumulation level of utterance history information is below a predetermined threshold level, provides response information corresponding to the user's voice on the basis of user information related to the characteristics of the user's voice; and when the accumulation level of utterance history information is equal to or higher than the predetermined threshold level, provides response information corresponding to the user's voice on the basis of the user information and the utterance history information.

Electronic device and control method thereof

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a microphone to receive audio, a communicator, a memory configured to store computer-executable instructions, and a processor configured to execute the computer-executable instructions. The processor is configured to determine whether the received audio includes a predetermined trigger word; based on determining that the predetermined trigger word is included in the received audio; activate a speech recognition function of the electronic device; detect a movement of a user while the speech recognition function is activated; and based on detecting the movement of the user, transmit a control signal, to a second electronic device to activate a speech recognition function of the second electronic device.

Electronic device and method for controlling the same

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Suwon-si, South Korea

Jisun Park