I don't know how useful It would be for me. outside of work I barely socialize with anyone. about the only thing I probably would want It for. Is to freak the house keepers out. main thing Is what can It do? besides event calender. text reader. no need for that personally. and If It got on my nerves I would just unplug It.
I thought the japanese already had household robots on the market like the Honda robot that's bipedal. This thing just looks like an expensive toy like the Wowee robots.
It's too bad the Jibo will have proprietary base programming, otherwise the Roomba could be added into it and it would be able to follow you around on its own.