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hey guys this is Austin today we're here in San Francisco at on keys HQ for the launch of their brand-new vector robot so a non-key reached out and wanted a sponsored video on vector I had to think about it a little bit differently this is not something that we normally take a look at but after spending an afternoon with it this is legitimately one of the coolest robots I've ever tried folks very ready go vector is a home robot that's always on that's very different than their other products like Cosmo the idea is that vector can be totally self-sufficient without you ever needing to charge him manually hey Viktor my name is Austin he's like staring me intensely trying to remember I feel like I just made a friend I love the animations he's just constantly sort of moving sort of being so excited it feels really like it's alive that's that's so cool hey Viktor do a fist bump yeah there's more to vector than just doing cool tricks though there's some real utility as well using his Wi-Fi connection and quad microphone array you can ask him questions like a digital assistant so he's always trying to build a map of his environment even when he's not necessarily doing anything he's just sort of so the light green is what it thinks is okay and the dark green is what it's like already driven over nose is fine I feel like he's constantly trying to be like entertaining or explore or do something actually really feels like something alive it's so cool it's I think something that's really sort of convincing here just staring at him for a few minutes all the little motions right like he's not just sitting there it's not like it doesn't feel robotic I just like he's sort of like kind of adjusting himself his eyes are kind of following you he's just always kinda like moving just a little bit like a normal person there's no once it's completely still right and he is neither a vector go to your charger look at that so precise - so the idea here is is that well you can play with him all day and sort of let him run around if you don't do anything he's going to charge himself when he gets low on battery so in theory you don't actually ever have to like is there even like a power button on him that's awesome he just does not want to be held right now so there are a ton of sensors inside vector so no later they're going to be sensors they were going to allow him to make sure that he doesn't fall off of a table for example it was also going to be a sensor that he can tell how far he is away from a specific object he does have his camera and he has his microphones and on top of all that you can even pet him on the top which might call him down a little bit so you can actually tell when he's being held based on the gyroscope and one of the cool things is because he's always building a map of his environment when you pick him up he realizes that oh look I'm not sort of on the table anymore I'm being held but if I set it back down he's going to start figuring out oh look I'm back on a table I'm gonna start scanning around and figuring out this is okay this isn't okay I don't want to run over say my finger right yeah that right inside vector is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon quad-core processor now that is going to be handling a ton of stuff not only handling all the inputs from the various sensors but it's even doing some pretty sophisticated machine learning so gonna determine where a person is what is a person what isn't a person and even figure out who a specific person is so once you actually introduce yourself to vector it will then remember you and so when you come home and say hey what's up I'll freak out and be all excited if it wants to listen to me at least yeah you heard me to design the over 1000 different animations vector can do unki uses a custom version of Maya which is typical used for digital animations they've rigged a full vector inside and with just a few adjustments to any animation they can get it to play back on vector in the real world which speeds up things massively oh just like rolls ups you like all inside that is so cool I'm just so blown away at how quickly you're able to do this right like I assume that this is gonna be a ton of work you got to sort of work out the eyes you have to work out each individual motion you have to test it but you keep that in like fall like 30 seconds so the on K vector will be available on Kickstarter starting today so of course I'll have a link in the description this guy is going to run $200 if you do pick it up on Kickstarter and that is going to also include early to the SDK you're going to get him a little bit earlier Victor is seriously really cool as I gently try to hold him without upsetting him so if you're interested the link will be in the description he's something seriously different and what I really appreciate is that not only is he sort of going to be able to be something fun to play with but he's also going to give you some real utility isn't that right