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Trifo Launches Ironpie, Next Generation of AI Home Robots at CES; First Product Is a Smart Robot VacuumTrifo, an artificial intelligence (AI) home robot company, announced today the launch of its first home robot, a smart vacuum that outperforms competitive models and is available at a lower price point. In late 2018, Trifo received $11 million in new funding. Trifo will exhibit at ShowStoppers@CES (News - Alert) and at CES 2019. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190107005207/en/ Ironpie Smart Robot Vacuum by Trifo (Photo: Business Wire) To meet Ironpie and get a demo:
"Ironpie represents a new generation of home robots, a smart robot vacuum that cleans faster, protects furniture better, is controllable from anywhere and with a host of features that improve on the original home vacuum concept," said Zhe Zhang, Trifo's CEO. We will continuously introduce enhanced intelligence and new features, such as Alexa and Google (News - Alert) Home integration in the first half of 2019, to make Ironpie the essential smart home robot." According to Research and Markets, the cleaning robot market is expected to grow from $2.09 billion in 2018 to $4.34 billion by 2023, at a CAGR of 16.21; primarily driven by penetration of automation in household appliances, rises in labor cost, and increasing safety concern.1 Key AI-enabled capabilities of Ironpie include:
Differentiating technical features of Ironpie include:
The Ironpie smart vacuum is $299. For more information download the media kit and visit: www.trifo.com. About Trifo Founded in 2016, Trifo is a full stack AI home robot company. Focusing on indoor home environments, Trifo has been developing an end-to-end integrated hardware/software system with sensing, perception, and decision capabilities. The Trifo robot is on its mission to serve as the smart autonomous agent to better help people organize and interact with home environments via perceiving physics, geometry, and semantics of home environments, communicating with human in a natural way, and continuously learning new skills with advanced AI technologies. Trifo has been granted approximately 40 U.S. and Chinese patents and has filed for more than 70 additional patents globally in U.S., Europe, and China. Trifo's proprietary algorithms have been published at top robotics conferences such as ICRA and IROS. Ironsides, the stereo visual inertial computing module, is widely used by more than 300 universities, companies, and developers. Trifo has more than 40 employees in Santa Clara, Calif., Shenzhen, and Beijing. The company is backed by leading investors including Walden International, Matrix Partners, Samsung (News - Alert) Ventures, and Tsinghua AI Fund. 1 https://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/zr7k3p/cleaning_robot?w=12 View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190107005207/en/ |