Jibo Responds to our Video!!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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so this video from ces 2018 is brought to you by group renault check out our
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video there symbio's demo car at the link in the video description hey gebo
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are you ready
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i'm ready for anything well i'm ready for anything that i've
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been programmed to be ready for so as you can probably imagine team gebo was
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uh well let's just say they recognized our crew when we were walking by on the
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show floor here at ces and they actually
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had some pretty specific responses to
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some of the criticisms we had of their gebo home robot
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first of all hey gebo who's the president of the united states
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donald trump is the president of the united states so there you go gebo knows
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what's up now and they've made a lot of improvements since then rolling out ota
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updates about every two weeks now there's actually been one small hardware
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tweak as well the screen has been swapped out for a higher resolution one
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with rounded corners unfortunately it's not OLED the supply is just not there
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yet but hey it's a small improvement and we'll take
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it now let's talk about the software updates because there have been a ton
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tweaks to camera processing for better pictures what they're calling fresh and lively
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features to make jibo a little more topical like a snow globe during the
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holidays gebo can now play music through i heart radio so at this time there's
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not a ton you can do in terms of voice controls and he still doesn't support
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services like spotify but they are expecting to add more services and the
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ability to do things like taijibo play the next song in the near future the
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team has added a new commander mode that actually allows you to see through
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jibo's eyes which lights up a purple led
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revealing that jibo has full RGB lighting in his led strip and in fact
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there is probably other hardware lying dormant under the hood and the jibo team
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has in fact confirmed that for us another feature of commander mode is the
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ability to type a message and have gebo say it lino's tech tips is the best so
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you can be looking around you can go hey this room's pretty messy hey there's my
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son yo kid clean your room and giba will say it well in a in a nicer way jibo now
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uses information from google in addition to the previous sources and can also do
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live sport scores even adding a little bit of color commentary to the mix like
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the celtics are crushing the knicks integration with philips hue
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nest and all recipes is coming as is a
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find my phone function something that i'm sure that we can all relate to a big
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priority for the development team is personalized reports so debo will see
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you and say something like hey Linus you
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got to get going oh by the way it's raining so you might want to grab an
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umbrella on your way out the door or if i were to give jibo an instruction
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like when you see my wife can you ask her to pick up some groceries next time
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she's at the grocery store gebo can pass along that instruction using his facial
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recognition now to be clear i still have
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a lot of doubts about gebo and for that matter smart assistants in general for
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as long as they are stationary but it's
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clear that the gebo team is a taking feedback seriously and b continuing
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their software development work so i do look forward to seeing how it continues
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to change in the future and we will be able to do that because the winning bid
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for our sanjibo was an epic troll so we still have it
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thanks for checking out this video from ces 2018 this video was brought to you
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by group renault you guys got to check out their symbios demo car we've got a
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video linked in the description but they did a full demo allowing me to take it
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out on real french roads with real
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drivers around at a level 4 autonomous
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operating level so that means that i was sitting in that thing going okay i'm
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leaned way back there's a big screen here i cannot even see over the
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dashboard and this car is straight up driving itself telegraphing its moves
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around other vehicles as we change lanes and even being able to operate
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autonomously with the driver wearing a vr headset i was a driver i was wearing
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a vr headset and they had the sensors of the car actually dialed into the vr
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headset and the programming for it so that you could be driving in this like
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fantastical environment like i had like a flock of birds go by and a helmet like
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this and it was an actual car totally crazy go check it out to see
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what group renault is doing in the space of autonomous car innovation
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so thanks for watching guys if you disliked this video you can hit that button but if you liked it hit like get
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subscribed and maybe consider checking out where to buy the stuff we featured
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because this is one of the few things we've covered at the show that you can
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actually buy today but whether or not you should
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is still up to you hey gebo
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how'd i do sorry i checked for you but i'm coming
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up empty ouch