Introducing my kids to a TINY ROBOT! - Anki Cozmo Showcase
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,054 words · ~5 min read
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the cosmo robot you might remember it from luke's tour of anki's lab where
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they created it in october of last year at the time it was meant to be a durable
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toy and robot pet but over the last year anki's team of phd roboticists animators
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and game developers has been hard at work making it more interactive more
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expressive and more playful and even
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adding a block-based programming function called codelab that is coming
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in december so when anki reached out about
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sponsoring a video i figured yeah sure why not let's take a look at the
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progress they've made but this time rather than having the tallest member of
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the Linus media group team take a look at it we would change gears a little bit
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and have the shortest one take a look
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why don't you sit in this chair
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there must be one heavy box the amount of uh
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grunting and groaning what is this
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it's a little robot should we get the quick start guide out
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yeah hey darling you're putting everything back in the package oh you want to put
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it in so we've got the cosmo app right there
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then we need to power up the cosmo i need you to put it right on here
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oh is it turning around
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um hold on searching for cosmo
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let console inspect the cube on his own
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okay is he going to inspect it
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actually well done kamsa would like to meet you
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what did it say is your man it said
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little man
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grab any cube with circling blue lights
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shake that tube until it's all the lights glow
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brightly press the cube or calm joe can see
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so he can feed himself
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before we go any further do you guys want to pick a tread color
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yeah please okay which one would you want red
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and which one do you want okay who am i to say no you can't have
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one red and one blue now you press spark a trick
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so you can watch cosmo roll a cube oh i think cosmo's already working on it
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so you have filled cosmo's play need each day you need to fill his play need
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and you'll earn a play token all right
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build a stack of cubes and cosmo will tip it over
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oh there it goes
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do you want to try a different game yeah please
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so this shows you how to set up the game and then you tap if the colors match
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oh screwed up
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more you gotta get one more oh
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there you go
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cosmo gets pretty upset when he loses hey yeah
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oh there's a three color mode that you unlock so whenever you win one of these
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games it unlocks more difficult ones
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tempt cosmo to pounce on a cube then pull it away before he can
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did you get it you got a point
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is it teasing you yeah oh cosmo got it so why don't we try the
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code lab now so this is code this is block coding but with uh
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cosmo hey customer picked up the block and put it
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over there
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well yeah he does that they're his blocks i wonder if it still remembers me from
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when i first tried this a little while ago
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oh yeah oh my god
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go or try discover sure use your creativity to program cosmo and explore
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things you can do together explore the world through oh
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oh this looks cool so cosmo has a 30 frame per second vga
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camera that it uses to look at its surroundings so that includes looking for these cubes
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as well as looking for faces that it recognizes
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whoa check this out human
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hey you if you click see inside it shows you the
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block codes it starts the program then when the flag is clicked it
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broadcasts a message message one
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cosmo asks for a question when message one received
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then 19 curious animation
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so constructor mode lets you create your own stuff
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so you can pick some
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sample ones so here when the flag is clicked
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repeat four drive 100 millimeters so that's 10 centimeters
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at 50 millimeters per second turn 90 degrees at 45 degrees per second
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look at that
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so you can program cosmo using code
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to do just about anything do you want to make cosmo drive in a
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bigger square please so do you see the one here that says
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drive yeah so how many millimeters should we put in
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there should we maybe put 200 millimeters 200 millimeters yeah because
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right now it's 100. wanna click 200
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so now cosmo's gonna go in a bigger square
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neat huh yeah it's got all kinds of stuff in here
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like pick random numbers set text alignment fill rectangle forms
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drawing mode when cubes are tapped when faces are
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seen wow this actually looks quite powerful
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we added an animation playing 80s music
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after the end of each length of our square so let's see what happens
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so it does this then this and then it plays our music
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play oh good it's playing them on top of each other do you like 80s music yeah
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do you want to put cosmo on the charger and then go get ready for trick-or-treating
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yes all right so
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final points here cosmo is secure it's actually a point-to-point connection
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between your phone and the robot itself so there's no data stored in the cloud
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whatsoever or anything like that code lab the really powerful block based
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programming tool is coming sometime late in december and i think that pretty much
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wraps it up so thanks to anki for sponsoring this video you can check out
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cosmo including the limited edition metallic one at the links in the video
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description and uh get yourself a fun
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little toy slash learning tool that code lab functionality is actually a lot
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more powerful than i was expecting i hadn't seen it until they sent over the
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early access beta of the app so go check it out at the link below