At CES 2025 in Las Vegas, Panasonic unveiled its upcoming digital assistant, Umi, which affords households a customized, AI-powered wellness coach. Created in partnership with Anthropic, Umi makes use of the Claude AI mannequin to assist households “care, coordinate, and join” with one another, the corporate mentioned.
More particularly, this includes an AI assistant that focuses on serving to households create targets, like spending extra time collectively or being extra energetic, by an interactive interface, which additionally permits customers to voice chat with Umi.
In a demo of Umi in the course of the firm’s CES keynote handle on Tuesday, Umi was accessible in a cell app the place households may group chat with the AI, in addition to set targets, create routines, handle duties, and extra.
The app may be helpful for caregivers of growing older mother and father who need to sustain with how these older adults of their households doing, even when they’re not all the time bodily collectively, Panasonic identified. (The firm is working with AARP on this facet of the Umi platform.)
The AI coach, which is because of launch within the U.S. in 2025, will moreover combine with a neighborhood of specialists who will assist individuals construct wholesome habits and create wellness routines. Panasonic is working with different wellness-focused companions together with Aaptiv, Precision Nutrition, SleepScore Labs, Addition Wealth, BlueApron, Calm, and extra. These manufacturers, part of Panasonic Well’s Partner Collective, will likely be working with Umi and different future Panasonic Well companies, the comapny mentioned.
Meanwhile, the partnership between Anthropic and Panasonic not solely supplies entry to the Claude AI to be used in Panasonic’s shopper merchandise, it additionally brings Claude to Panasonic’s workforce. The comapny mentioned it can combine Claude as a “strategic asset” with a deal with bettering leads to areas like customer support, gross sales, advertising, and coding.
