the cosmo robot you might remember it from luke's tour of anki's lab where
they created it in october of last year at the time it was meant to be a durable
toy and robot pet but over the last year anki's team of phd roboticists animators
and game developers has been hard at work making it more interactive more
expressive and more playful and even
adding a block-based programming function called codelab that is coming
in december so when anki reached out about
sponsoring a video i figured yeah sure why not let's take a look at the
progress they've made but this time rather than having the tallest member of
the Linus media group team take a look at it we would change gears a little bit
and have the shortest one take a look
why don't you sit in this chair
there must be one heavy box the amount of uh
grunting and groaning what is this
it's a little robot should we get the quick start guide out
yeah hey darling you're putting everything back in the package oh you want to put
it in so we've got the cosmo app right there
then we need to power up the cosmo i need you to put it right on here
oh is it turning around
um hold on searching for cosmo
let console inspect the cube on his own
okay is he going to inspect it
actually well done kamsa would like to meet you
what did it say is your man it said
little man
grab any cube with circling blue lights
shake that tube until it's all the lights glow
brightly press the cube or calm joe can see
so he can feed himself
before we go any further do you guys want to pick a tread color
yeah please okay which one would you want red
and which one do you want okay who am i to say no you can't have
one red and one blue now you press spark a trick
so you can watch cosmo roll a cube oh i think cosmo's already working on it
so you have filled cosmo's play need each day you need to fill his play need
and you'll earn a play token all right
build a stack of cubes and cosmo will tip it over
oh there it goes
do you want to try a different game yeah please
so this shows you how to set up the game and then you tap if the colors match
oh screwed up
more you gotta get one more oh
there you go
cosmo gets pretty upset when he loses hey yeah
oh there's a three color mode that you unlock so whenever you win one of these
games it unlocks more difficult ones
tempt cosmo to pounce on a cube then pull it away before he can
did you get it you got a point
is it teasing you yeah oh cosmo got it so why don't we try the
code lab now so this is code this is block coding but with uh
cosmo hey customer picked up the block and put it
over there
well yeah he does that they're his blocks i wonder if it still remembers me from
when i first tried this a little while ago
oh yeah oh my god
go or try discover sure use your creativity to program cosmo and explore
things you can do together explore the world through oh
oh this looks cool so cosmo has a 30 frame per second vga
camera that it uses to look at its surroundings so that includes looking for these cubes
as well as looking for faces that it recognizes
whoa check this out human
hey you if you click see inside it shows you the
block codes it starts the program then when the flag is clicked it
broadcasts a message message one
cosmo asks for a question when message one received
then 19 curious animation
so constructor mode lets you create your own stuff
so you can pick some
sample ones so here when the flag is clicked
repeat four drive 100 millimeters so that's 10 centimeters
at 50 millimeters per second turn 90 degrees at 45 degrees per second
look at that
so you can program cosmo using code
to do just about anything do you want to make cosmo drive in a
bigger square please so do you see the one here that says
drive yeah so how many millimeters should we put in
there should we maybe put 200 millimeters 200 millimeters yeah because
right now it's 100. wanna click 200
so now cosmo's gonna go in a bigger square
neat huh yeah it's got all kinds of stuff in here
like pick random numbers set text alignment fill rectangle forms
drawing mode when cubes are tapped when faces are
seen wow this actually looks quite powerful
we added an animation playing 80s music
after the end of each length of our square so let's see what happens
so it does this then this and then it plays our music
play oh good it's playing them on top of each other do you like 80s music yeah
do you want to put cosmo on the charger and then go get ready for trick-or-treating
yes all right so
final points here cosmo is secure it's actually a point-to-point connection
between your phone and the robot itself so there's no data stored in the cloud
whatsoever or anything like that code lab the really powerful block based
programming tool is coming sometime late in december and i think that pretty much
wraps it up so thanks to anki for sponsoring this video you can check out
cosmo including the limited edition metallic one at the links in the video
description and uh get yourself a fun
little toy slash learning tool that code lab functionality is actually a lot
more powerful than i was expecting i hadn't seen it until they sent over the
early access beta of the app so go check it out at the link below