Editing Chatbot (section)

=== Toys ===
Chatbots have also been incorporated into devices not primarily meant for computing, such as toys.<ref name="virtualagentchat">{{Cite web|url=https://virtualagentchat.com/2015/02/23/conversational-toys-the-latest-trend-in-speech-technology/|title=Conversational Toys – The Latest Trend in Speech Technology|last=Amy|date=23 February 2015|website=Virtual Agent Chat|access-date=11 August 2016|archive-date=21 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180221035430/https://virtualagentchat.com/2015/02/23/conversational-toys-the-latest-trend-in-speech-technology/|url-status=usurped}}</ref>

''Hello [[Barbie]]'' is an Internet-connected version of the doll that uses a chatbot provided by the company ToyTalk,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fastcompany.com/3042430/most-creative-people/using-toytalk-technology-new-hello-barbie-will-have-real-conversations-|title=Using Toy-talk Technology, New Hello Barbie Will Have Real Conversations With Kids |website=Fast Company|last1=Nagy|first1=Evie|date=13 February 2015|access-date=18 March 2015|archive-date=15 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150315034733/http://www.fastcompany.com/3042430/most-creative-people/using-toytalk-technology-new-hello-barbie-will-have-real-conversations-|url-status=live}}</ref> which previously used the chatbot for a range of smartphone-based characters for children.<ref>{{Triangulation|179|Oren Jacob, the co-founder and CEO of ToyTalk}}</ref> These characters' behaviors are constrained by a set of rules that in effect emulate a particular character and produce a storyline.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://patents.google.com/patent/US20140032471/en|title=Artificial intelligence script tool|access-date=12 December 2021|archive-date=12 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211212003052/https://patents.google.com/patent/US20140032471/en|url-status=live}}</ref>

The [[My Friend Cayla]] doll was marketed as a line of {{convert|18|in|cm|adj=on}} dolls which uses [[speech recognition]] technology in conjunction with an [[Android (operating system)|Android]] or [[iOS]] mobile app to recognize the child's speech and have a conversation. Like the Hello Barbie doll, it attracted controversy due to vulnerabilities with the doll's [[Bluetooth]] stack and its use of data collected from the child's speech.

IBM's [[Watson (computer)|Watson computer]] has been used as the basis for chatbot-based educational toys for companies such as ''CogniToys,''<ref name="virtualagentchat" /> intended to interact with children for educational purposes.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Takahashi|first1=Dean|title=Elemental's smart connected toy taps IBM's Watson supercomputer for its brains|url=https://venturebeat.com/2015/02/23/elementals-smart-connected-toy-cognitoys-taps-ibms-watson-supercomputer-for-its-brains/|website=Venture Beat|date=23 February 2015|access-date=15 May 2015|archive-date=20 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150520103335/http://venturebeat.com/2015/02/23/elementals-smart-connected-toy-cognitoys-taps-ibms-watson-supercomputer-for-its-brains/|url-status=live}}</ref>