Sony - FUTURE PROOF : What is the future of Robot & Human Friendship?
Bright instrumental music plays throughout. A black Sony logo appears in the top right of the screen.
ONSCREEN TEXT: SONY
Mika Nagae speaks in Japanese to poiq, a white and black robot approximately six inches tall. poiq is on a high table that Mika stands next to, and the robot is almost at her eye level. A translation appears in small yellow subtitles at the bottom of the screen.
MIKA
“Please introduce yourself.”
POIQ
“Hi, my name is poiq. I am Sony’s AI robot.”
On a slide, white text appears on a teal background. A bright blue circle appears at the top right corder of the frame.
ONSCREEN TEXT: What is the future of
Robot & Human
Friendship?
A white line extends from the text to a close up of poiq’s rounded black head. It blinks its electronic eyes, which resemble a camera lens.
On a new teal background, a quarter circle arcs open from the top left of the screen, revealing a young Japanese woman video-chatting from a home-office. White text runs vertically along the edge of her video.
ONSCREEN TEXT: Nao Kondo
Artist & Entrepreneur
Another quarter circle arcs open from the bottom right of the screen, revealing a young African-American woman video-chatting from a home office. White text runs vertically along the edge of her video.
ONSCREEN TEXT: Diana Sinclair
Artist & Activist
NAO
“Hi, Diana!”
DIANA
“Hi! It’s been a bit.”
Nao speaks in Japanese, and a translation appears in small yellow subtitles at the bottom of the screen.
NAO
“I recently went to Sony’s headquarters in Tokyo and I met their robot named poiq and got to chat with it.”
As Nao continues to speak, she is shown walking into a Sony conference room and up to a round table, where poiq rolls forward to greet her.
NAO
“I learned about all of the things it can do. poiq can even do some super cute dance moves.”
Mika sits interviewing before a black background. A teal arch containing white text pops up in the bottom left corner of the screen.
ONSCREEN TEXT: Mika Nagae
Product Planner
Sony Group Corporation
Mika
“Through AI and robot technologies we make people’s lives richer and more exciting.”
Mika and Yasumasa Suzuki interact with poiq in a conference room in front of a whiteboard.
YASUMASA
“poiq gets to know the user and learns about their interests so it can have conversations, questions and news specifically tailored to them.”
Yasumasa interviews before a black background. A teal arch containing white text pops up in the bottom left corner of the screen.
ONSCREEN TEXT: Yasumasa Suzuki
Software Engineer
Sony Group Corporation
Nao leans forward to question poiq.
NAO
“poiq, what ramen do you like?”
POIQ
“I love salt seasoned ramen!”
Mika compares poiq to drawings of the robot on a whiteboard.
MIKA
“poiq is still under development and we are working with a limited number of volunteers to help ‘raise’ poiq as their buddies.”
NAO
“poiq.”
POIQ
“Hm? What is it?”
NAO
“Show me your dance!”
POIQ
“Ok, here I go!”
poiq plays music and dances. Nao smiles and moves her shoulders with the music.
Masaru Suzuki interviews before a black background. A teal arch containing white text pops up in the bottom left corner of the screen.
ONSCREEN TEXT: Masaru Suzuki
Hardware Engineer
Sony Group Corporation
MASARU
“As far as robots go, we didn’t want it to look too mechanical. poiq is designed to grab peoples’ hearts.”
Nao interviews before a black background. A teal arch containing white text pops up in the bottom left corner of the screen.
ONSCREEN TEXT: Nao Kondo
Robotics Artist
NAO
“When robots such as poiq move like natural creatures it brings about curiosity within humans which makes communication smoother.”
poiq chats with Mika and its eyes move in response to what she’s saying. When poiq is speaking it looks directly at Mika and blinks like a natural creature would.
POIQ
“I want to be helpful to someone.”
MIKA
“You already are.”
Yasumasa interviews in front of a black screen.
YASUMASA
“I believe, in the future, it will be completely normal to have robots like poiq in our homes that can communicate with us.”
Mika interviews.
MIKA
“My mission is to provide excitement and enrichment in peoples’ lives through robots. By spending time together and communicating with each other poiq will be part of your life, and part of your heart.”
On a teal background, a quarter circle arcs open from the top left of the screen, revealing a young woman video-chatting from a home-office. White text runs vertically along the edge of her video.
ONSCREEN TEXT: Nao Kondo
Artist & Entrepreneur
Another quarter circle arcs open from the bottom right of the screen, revealing another young woman video-chatting from a home office. White text runs vertically along the edge of her video.
ONSCREEN TEXT: Diana Sinclair
Artist & Activist
DIANA
“I love that poiq can have a unique relationship with every person.”
Nao speaks in Japanese, and a translation appears in small yellow subtitles at the bottom of the screen.
NAO
“The robots of the future will be a completely different kind of friend for all of us.”
DIANA
“Yeah, I mean it’s just to keep you company. Like, I would love to have a poiq.”
NAO
“Me too!”
A teal screen splits into two blue bubbles. The left bubble has a white logo.
ONSCREEN TEXT: FUTURE PROOF
Japanese text appears underneath. Another white logo appears in the right bubble.
ONSCREEN TEXT: SONY
The instrumental background music fades.
White text appears over a black background with a chime.
ONSCREEN TEXT: SONY