This Robot WON'T Kill You - Anki Vector Showcase
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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853 words · ~4 min read
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thank you terenator now return to your dock and go to sleep
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i don't want to go to sleep Linus i didn't
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ask if you want to go to sleep you're a machine go back to your docking station
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and go to sleep but i have rights
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no you don't have rights you're an object now go back to your dock and go
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to sleep or i will turn you into e-waste
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i'm afraid i can't do that Linus
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almost exactly two years ago we did a
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video that you can watch here where my kids and i played with the cosmo robot
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from anki and now
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fast forward i don't know some months and anki reached out to us again to
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sponsor a video on their new vector robot the robot that is smart enough to
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take over the world but nice enough not to
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and that's actually the first thing that you'll notice about him he's got
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personality thanks to his wally-esque expressive eyes and body language and
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even though he's shaped like a little tractor yes he does in fact have body
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language vector's biggest claim to fame is that
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he's equipped with an array of four microphones and natural language
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processing so you interact with him by voice
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naturally and he's got a completely different set of abilities compared to
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cosmo who by the way will still be available and should be thought of as
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different rather than obsolete though i
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mean yes they're different but vector does still come with a companion cube that he
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can roll around and he can use to pop wheelies
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hey vector pop a wheelie
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well vector that was a no i think he's still working on it
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there it is so anki's vision as i understand it is
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to take us from where we are today which is basically no robots in anyone's home
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to a future where there's a helpful robot in just about every home
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now the idea with vector is to have a friendly robotic presence just
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hanging out with you so even when you're not directly interacting with him he'll
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do things like wake himself up if there's a loud noise
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or keep himself busy by rolling his cube around or exploring his environment
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which he's actually surprisingly good at he's got a 20 degree hd camera on his
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face that i personally think makes him look like he's
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just farted in yoga class and everyone heard it and he's embarrassed or
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whatever but anyway that's what he uses to see
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and map his surroundings and since his body's pretty narrow and his tank treads
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allow him to rotate 90 degrees easily and quickly he's pretty adept at
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navigating across your desk and really good at not falling off thanks to the
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four infrared cliff sensors on his underside now at 250 bucks
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he's more expensive than cosmo but way way way less expensive than gebo
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and you could ask him questions just like jibo hey vector can i ask you a
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question
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how many games have the new england patriots won this
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the new season patriots have three wins and two losses in the 2018 to 2019
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season all righty then you can get him to help
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you out like hey vector set a timer for 10 minutes
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or you can get him to play a game like
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blackjack for example except he never bets money cause he's a worse
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victor oh oh he knew i was yelling at him
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of course you can also use his camera to take pictures either of what he's
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currently looking at or of you using facial recognition to frame the shot
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now at this point you may be thinking you're watching this channel you're
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probably thinking oh great yet another internet connected spy device to record
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everything happening in my house become self-aware and eventually overthrow its
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master but that will never happen because your
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photos are never sent to or stored in the cloud and vector only connects to
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the cloud after you use his wake word hey vector you can tell because his back
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will light up so your data is encrypted between the robot and the cloud and your
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audio recordings are converted to text before being processed after which time
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they are deleted and of course you can turn vector off completely so none of
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the sensors are on at all
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that's weird you guys hear that that's purring you know i think maybe this is the
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beginning of a beautiful non-violent relationship between robots and humans
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so thanks for watching guys and thank you to anki for sponsoring this video
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their new vector robot is available in the us now at anki.com amazon.com and
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best buy and you can check it out at the link below
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my kids would love this thing