A team of researchers at the University of Washington has developed robotic, shape-changing smart speakers that can deploy themselves to divide rooms into speech zones and track the positions of individual speakers.
Using deep learning algorithms, the system is able to allow users to mute certain areas or separate simultaneous conversations, even if two people near each other have similar voices. The robots, each about one inch in diameter, can deploy from, and return to, a charging station on their own, similar to a Roomba.
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