you all remember the great gebo massacre of 2017 and so do we actually i'm pretty
sure they blame us for syncing their company so when ki i reached out
to sponsor this video about their clickbot educational robot my eyebrows
just about raised right off my head but
we wouldn't be making this video if the click bot was yet another colossal waste
of money that barely does anything so let's unleash the krakens on it
and see what our newest family member can do
this cute modular robot from kiai is the product of a successful kickstarter
funded back in february of 2020 with backers being able to pledge anywhere
from 299 for the early bird starter kit to 6.99 for the early bird maker kit
with plenty of options in between you can build basically anything you want
with all the pieces in the kit but they have some suggested ones so the two main
ones are big and back so back is kind of like a
tall skinny boy moves around and then bick has wheels so that's why we've
actually got wheels included in our kit so which one do you guys want to build
bicker back please i had kind of planned for us to
do the other one first can you work with me on this yeah we'll be back first yeah
okay okay some of the more advanced features are going to be a little
complicated for a younger audience but they figure anyone ages 8 and up can
probably assemble it so why don't we get you to take a crack at
the assembly we're going to start with the head and wait a second my boy yeah
you can put it together any way you want but we're going to start by not doing a random one we're going to start with
back so that's your next piece so we got this one and now we need another one of
them that's right okay have you figured out how to put together my boy
well did you figure out how to put it together so this comes off okay you got
to put that one together production cup yeah so i guess you can suction it onto
something are there more pieces because it looks like we've got a foot here
oh my goodness two suction cups okay
ah okay i'm just gonna i'm just gonna do it
okay oh hi wow it's got lights on it
whoa has mount already been stickied on the
desk
there's a few things you can do so you can try tickling back's head
okay does someone want to try to cover backside me
okay go for it with your hands
you gotta try there's a few things we can do here
there's bax play box wave left or right about 10 centimeters
in front of back to select an answer before the countdown ends
okay the fastest bird is an ostrich or a a
what in castle lost jesus i have no idea
so far then it actually does seem pretty
gebo like but that's okay we're coming to the but
wait there's more moment we got the full kit which still costs less than ajiba by
the way and can be used to build any number of different robots ones that
have been pre-tested by ki or the community or your own creations so why
don't we build the other starter robot and try some of the other functionality
the instructions are here in the main menu but you can see there's all other
stuff in here meet friends update settings
so this is a hole in there there's your connection settings here so let's go
back to calibrate please connect as follows applebee
all right here we go ready so i need one of those
that's kind of cool it just gives you like the next step
they don't even need all the robot functionality to have fun with this
stuff apparently wait we're building back again what the heck well i guess we
can watch back dance now that's why they call him back because he comes back
get it that's that's how i can tell the difference between staff that i pay and
my own children touch screen could be a little sensitivity could be tweaked a
little there's some constructive feedback for the ki team
there we go dance okay here we go five four
three two one
okay that was dance mode we want to get into
building bic mode so there you go we've got bix selected in the menu
we're gonna click that and it says remove all the flashing modules okay
guys tear off all the flashing ones rip it apart
kill them so now do you see the instructions on
the screen yeah so you got to do that
all right you got it there we go
anyone can balance okay keep bic standing on a flat surface oh wow it
really does balance itself segway style that's pretty cool
what no what no you're not a person i'm pretty sure
i'm a person so we're gonna try one of the ones in
like the community thing oh wrong module position gosh darn it oh take it off i
got it wrong again the other side you have to put on the other side oh
well all right smarty pants why don't you do it then there we go that's kind
of cool look at this it's got like a 3d view if you have trouble kind of lining
things up now we need kind of like a butt tail
thing there we go uh okay i need another sphere more sphere i don't have one yes
you do you have three what the heck are we even making
a race car okay now we need wheels kids
wheel me okay so there's like a pressure sensitive
foot that goes in here okay
wrong module position why does it need a foot okay where's my
next wheel what this is a race car okay you know
what sure fine oh we're doing awesome now i'm getting the hang of this all
right i need another sphere spear me you might need some help from your big
brother oh wow good job
so now what we can do is we can use the phone app to drive it
around select reset to adjust posture yeah oh
hi okay you guys want to try the racer yes
all right me too how fast does it go
oh wow okay oh that's pretty cool
all right who wants to try it put your thumb on yeah there you go
okay you got to go a different direction now back see
and forward ah you gotta go get andy
okay you try it you press the other mode
so now what does it do
now what's cool is that if you build your own you can actually program little
animations and stuff like that by setting up what are essentially key
frames manually and then playing them back so you could have it go get
something or go back and forth okay hold on hold on
okay so let's see what it's doing okay so
so like things like this
now it does have these little locks if you have a model that's
kind of top-heavy or something once you're
familiar with the motion control you can also go in and create your own ai
programs for clickbot with the simple graphical user interface allows anyone
to visually script to their heart's content the community is also constantly
uploading new videos showcasing just what clickbot can do and with a helpful
online community of like-minded makers you can be sure to find solutions online
to problems you might encounter when trying to program or put together
clickbot yourself they're also a great source of inspiration if you're not sure
where to start or where to go next in your bot building journey the lack of
ability to connect it to a terminal isn't the only blemish you're limited to
2.4 gigahertz wi-fi there aren't any error lines for failing code and the app
did have to be reset a few times to fix some instances of freezing however ki's
youtube channel has a lot of tutorials for beginners and clickbot is already
getting firmer updates so we would expect some of these bugs to disappear
or at least lessen in the future this also leaves room for new features to be
added on top of the 200 plus interactions it can already perform
oh poor you wow it really does look like a wounded animal
it runs for about two hours between charges making it a pretty fun gift for
the tech savvy kid in your life or for anyone who's looking to relive their
childhood dream of having a robotic friend or well not really any friend
uh thank you for watching uh thanks ki for sponsoring this video if your kids
are still too young for the clickbot make sure to check out our abcs of gaming board book at lttstore.com
totally unbiased review how's the abcs of gaming is a good book
thanks for that uh and if you're looking for another video to watch right now how
about our review of gebo it's basically
well it it tried to be this but it was so much less than this but it
does twerk