London Design Gold

2025

The Xiao Zhi Shu AI Magic Companion

Entrant Company

Digital Plain (Fujian) Technology Co., Ltd.

Category

Product Design - Baby, Kids & Children Products

Client's Name

Country / Region

China

The Xiao Zhi Shu AI Magic Companion is an intelligent interactive toy designed for children aged 3-8, comprising a physical toy and a companion app. Its innovation lies in deeply integrating artificial intelligence with children’s cognitive characteristics, creating a seamless bidirectional natural language interaction system. It also features emotional recognition and response, as well as emotional data collection and visualization technologies. This helps parents scientifically understand their child’s psychological growth trajectory, delivering an intelligent companionship experience with significant educational value.

It features a bionic egg-shaped structure with smooth, rounded curves, designed with children’s ergonomic needs in mind to ensure comfortable handling and safety. It can also be transformed into a portable accessory via a pendant, meeting diverse needs like outdoor activities. A smile-shaped light module at the center dynamically adjusts color and brightness based on the usage scenario, providing intuitive emotional feedback. The overall design is sleek and modern, balancing a toy’s approachability with the futuristic appeal of a tech product.

By continuously learning the user’s language habits and interests, the system autonomously adjusts dialogue content and interaction methods, delivering a personalized companionship experience. Unlike traditional voice assistants that focus on one-way command execution, It supports diverse interaction forms, including story creation, knowledge exploration, and scenario simulation, naturally integrating language training, logical thinking, and creativity development into the dialogue process. Additionally, the device includes an environmental sensing module that detects real-time changes like day-night cycles or activity states, automatically switching interaction modes accordingly.

The emotional recognition system analyzes voice characteristics and behavioral patterns to compile a child’s emotional development trajectory, which is uploaded in real-time to the companion app. All data is presented in clear, intuitive charts and text suggestions, offering features like emotional reports, personality analysis, and interest guidance. This enables parents to comprehensively understand their child’s emotional changes and growth trajectory.

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