Baidu Introduces Personal Assistant

The Chinese search engine Baidu has introduced a personal assistant named Duer on the first day of the Baidu World Congress 2015. The assistant is in the latest version of the company’s mobile app.

Robin Li, the CEO of Baidu, announced this at the congress. Duer leverages the company’s existing ecosystem, which already spans many different sectors such as film, tourism, education, health, and food and beverage. Duer would link different categories of information for users, for example someone searching for a restaurant is presented with not only location and type of food, but also whether pets are allowed, whether there is television and whether a celebrity ever sat at the table. .

Duer logically works closely with Baidu’s navigation and restaurant applications. The personal assistant should also work easily with apps built by other developers. In addition, Baidu seems to be exploring the possibility of releasing Duer as a physical robot.

Presentation Baidu Duer at Baidu World Congress