The Yandex Smart Speaker concept feels friendly and human-like, because it sort of looks like one - Yanko Design

There's a slight sense of dissonance when you're talking to a cylinder with LEDs around it, and it talks back. The Echo, the Nest Home, the Apple Homepod, all have a slightly homogenous shape that looks like a gadget, just behaves like a human. The conceptual Yandex Station hopes to make a slight alteration to that dissonance. Shaped to expect like a Matryoshka doll (you know those Russian nesting dolls), the Yandex Station looks like a speaker, only bridges the gap by anthropomorphized it and 'feeling' nearly like a human.

Designed past Belarus-based Kiryl Miahkou, the smart speaker concept for Yandex has an instantly friendly demeanor to it, with not so much equally a sharp edge to be seen anywhere. The rounded forms, almost human proportions, and the presence of a touchscreen interface exactly where you'd wait the confront to be, everything contributes to the Yandex Station'due south ability to announced affable. The speaker comes with a wraparound fabric clad, like most speakers, sporting classic decor-friendly hues, while a touchscreen interface on the tiptop lets you navigate through the speaker's features… or you could just talk to Yandex's voice AI, knowing that you ARE speaking to an artificial human being, merely at to the lowest degree the speaker's design is trying to bridge that gap and humanize the speaker instead of blindly opting for a sleek tech-y exterior.

Designer: Kiryl Miahkou