thank you terenator now return to your dock and go to sleep
i don't want to go to sleep Linus i didn't
ask if you want to go to sleep you're a machine go back to your docking station
and go to sleep but i have rights
no you don't have rights you're an object now go back to your dock and go
to sleep or i will turn you into e-waste
i'm afraid i can't do that Linus
almost exactly two years ago we did a
video that you can watch here where my kids and i played with the cosmo robot
from anki and now
fast forward i don't know some months and anki reached out to us again to
sponsor a video on their new vector robot the robot that is smart enough to
take over the world but nice enough not to
and that's actually the first thing that you'll notice about him he's got
personality thanks to his wally-esque expressive eyes and body language and
even though he's shaped like a little tractor yes he does in fact have body
language vector's biggest claim to fame is that
he's equipped with an array of four microphones and natural language
processing so you interact with him by voice
naturally and he's got a completely different set of abilities compared to
cosmo who by the way will still be available and should be thought of as
different rather than obsolete though i
mean yes they're different but vector does still come with a companion cube that he
can roll around and he can use to pop wheelies
hey vector pop a wheelie
well vector that was a no i think he's still working on it
there it is so anki's vision as i understand it is
to take us from where we are today which is basically no robots in anyone's home
to a future where there's a helpful robot in just about every home
now the idea with vector is to have a friendly robotic presence just
hanging out with you so even when you're not directly interacting with him he'll
do things like wake himself up if there's a loud noise
or keep himself busy by rolling his cube around or exploring his environment
which he's actually surprisingly good at he's got a 20 degree hd camera on his
face that i personally think makes him look like he's
just farted in yoga class and everyone heard it and he's embarrassed or
whatever but anyway that's what he uses to see
and map his surroundings and since his body's pretty narrow and his tank treads
allow him to rotate 90 degrees easily and quickly he's pretty adept at
navigating across your desk and really good at not falling off thanks to the
four infrared cliff sensors on his underside now at 250 bucks
he's more expensive than cosmo but way way way less expensive than gebo
and you could ask him questions just like jibo hey vector can i ask you a
question
how many games have the new england patriots won this
the new season patriots have three wins and two losses in the 2018 to 2019
season all righty then you can get him to help
you out like hey vector set a timer for 10 minutes
or you can get him to play a game like
blackjack for example except he never bets money cause he's a worse
victor oh oh he knew i was yelling at him
of course you can also use his camera to take pictures either of what he's
currently looking at or of you using facial recognition to frame the shot
now at this point you may be thinking you're watching this channel you're
probably thinking oh great yet another internet connected spy device to record
everything happening in my house become self-aware and eventually overthrow its
master but that will never happen because your
photos are never sent to or stored in the cloud and vector only connects to
the cloud after you use his wake word hey vector you can tell because his back
will light up so your data is encrypted between the robot and the cloud and your
audio recordings are converted to text before being processed after which time
they are deleted and of course you can turn vector off completely so none of
the sensors are on at all
that's weird you guys hear that that's purring you know i think maybe this is the
beginning of a beautiful non-violent relationship between robots and humans
so thanks for watching guys and thank you to anki for sponsoring this video
their new vector robot is available in the us now at anki.com amazon.com and
best buy and you can check it out at the link below
my kids would love this thing