so this video from ces 2018 is brought to you by group renault check out our
video there symbio's demo car at the link in the video description hey gebo
are you ready
i'm ready for anything well i'm ready for anything that i've
been programmed to be ready for so as you can probably imagine team gebo was
uh well let's just say they recognized our crew when we were walking by on the
show floor here at ces and they actually
had some pretty specific responses to
some of the criticisms we had of their gebo home robot
first of all hey gebo who's the president of the united states
donald trump is the president of the united states so there you go gebo knows
what's up now and they've made a lot of improvements since then rolling out ota
updates about every two weeks now there's actually been one small hardware
tweak as well the screen has been swapped out for a higher resolution one
with rounded corners unfortunately it's not OLED the supply is just not there
yet but hey it's a small improvement and we'll take
it now let's talk about the software updates because there have been a ton
tweaks to camera processing for better pictures what they're calling fresh and lively
features to make jibo a little more topical like a snow globe during the
holidays gebo can now play music through i heart radio so at this time there's
not a ton you can do in terms of voice controls and he still doesn't support
services like spotify but they are expecting to add more services and the
ability to do things like taijibo play the next song in the near future the
team has added a new commander mode that actually allows you to see through
jibo's eyes which lights up a purple led
revealing that jibo has full RGB lighting in his led strip and in fact
there is probably other hardware lying dormant under the hood and the jibo team
has in fact confirmed that for us another feature of commander mode is the
ability to type a message and have gebo say it lino's tech tips is the best so
you can be looking around you can go hey this room's pretty messy hey there's my
son yo kid clean your room and giba will say it well in a in a nicer way jibo now
uses information from google in addition to the previous sources and can also do
live sport scores even adding a little bit of color commentary to the mix like
the celtics are crushing the knicks integration with philips hue
nest and all recipes is coming as is a
find my phone function something that i'm sure that we can all relate to a big
priority for the development team is personalized reports so debo will see
you and say something like hey Linus you
got to get going oh by the way it's raining so you might want to grab an
umbrella on your way out the door or if i were to give jibo an instruction
like when you see my wife can you ask her to pick up some groceries next time
she's at the grocery store gebo can pass along that instruction using his facial
recognition now to be clear i still have
a lot of doubts about gebo and for that matter smart assistants in general for
as long as they are stationary but it's
clear that the gebo team is a taking feedback seriously and b continuing
their software development work so i do look forward to seeing how it continues
to change in the future and we will be able to do that because the winning bid
for our sanjibo was an epic troll so we still have it
thanks for checking out this video from ces 2018 this video was brought to you
by group renault you guys got to check out their symbios demo car we've got a
video linked in the description but they did a full demo allowing me to take it
out on real french roads with real
drivers around at a level 4 autonomous
operating level so that means that i was sitting in that thing going okay i'm
leaned way back there's a big screen here i cannot even see over the
dashboard and this car is straight up driving itself telegraphing its moves
around other vehicles as we change lanes and even being able to operate
autonomously with the driver wearing a vr headset i was a driver i was wearing
a vr headset and they had the sensors of the car actually dialed into the vr
headset and the programming for it so that you could be driving in this like
fantastical environment like i had like a flock of birds go by and a helmet like
this and it was an actual car totally crazy go check it out to see
what group renault is doing in the space of autonomous car innovation
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how'd i do sorry i checked for you but i'm coming
up empty ouch