Panasonic unveils an AI-powered wellness coach, powered by Anthropic’s Claude, at CES 2025
At CES 2025 in Las Vegas, Panasonic unveiled its upcoming digital assistant, Umi, which affords households a personalised, AI-powered wellness coach. Created in partnership with Anthropic, Umi makes use of the Claude AI model to assist households “care, coordinate, and join” with one another, the corporate stated.
Extra particularly, this includes an AI assistant that focuses on serving to households create objectives, like spending extra time collectively or being extra energetic, by way of an interactive interface, which additionally permits customers to voice chat with Umi.
In a demo of Umi through the firm’s CES keynote handle on Tuesday, Umi was accessible in a cell app the place households might group chat with the AI, in addition to set objectives, create routines, handle duties, and extra.
The app may be helpful for caregivers of ageing dad and mom who need to sustain with how these older adults of their households doing, even when they’re not at all times bodily collectively, Panasonic identified. (The corporate is working with AARP on this side of the Umi platform.)
The AI coach, which is because of launch within the U.S. in 2025, will moreover combine with a group of specialists who will assist folks construct wholesome habits and create wellness routines. Panasonic is working with different wellness-focused companions together with Aaptiv, Precision Diet, SleepScore Labs, Addition Wealth, BlueApron, Calm, and extra. These manufacturers, part of Panasonic Effectively’s Accomplice Collective, might be working with Umi and different future Panasonic Effectively companies, the comapny stated.
In the meantime, the partnership between Anthropic and Panasonic not solely gives entry to the Claude AI to be used in Panasonic’s client merchandise, it additionally brings Claude to Panasonic’s workforce. The comapny stated it should combine Claude as a “strategic asset” with a concentrate on bettering leads to areas like customer support, gross sales, advertising, and coding.
