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hey guys I am in the very depths of Eureka Park at Tech West this place is a bit of a maze but I've managed to find something incredibly cool it's from an Oregon startup called rogue harmonics they're two people and they have two really incredible robots now if you're kind of sick of speaking to your smart speaker in the corner cause it's just a white or black box it doesn't really offer you much maybe this one's for you this is Elena and she's designed designed to be an interface for you to speak to your smart speaker so you feel like you're speaking to a human with real feelings kind of she's hooked up to the Alexis speaker here she's got six digital motors inside her face that help her mouth move and her eyes and generally make her feel just a little bit creepy I'm having a bit of an uncanny valley moment right here these guys have worked on two robots so this one here is more of a consumer model and it's designed to sort of help people who may need language development skills people who are living with autism spectrum disorder may be elderly people who need to communicate regularly and feel like they have companionship it's also designed to help us as people get used to the idea of robots being invisible so imagine you're jumping into an autonomous car you're going to feel a little bit weird getting into the backseat when there's no driver this could be your driver to get you used to the idea of that autonomy me a kind of stepping stone before you get to the real thing so I'm gonna ask it a question Alexa what should I do in Las Vegas Old Las Vegas Mormons Dave Historic Park and tule springs Alexa what's the weather like today right now in Wilsonville it's 54 degrees Fahrenheit with cloudy skies today's forecast has lots of clouds with a high of 56 degrees and a low of 42 degrees this one's my favorite Alexa why don't you have arms sorry I'm not sure no one's really sure here either it's a cool idea and the one behind me is Alan the robot now this is a sign kind of Morford developers maybe businesses who are looking to interface with their artificial intelligence so instead of it instead of having to trawl through lines of code or run through huge amounts of data you might be interacting with Alan to work out how your artificial intelligence is developing it's an interesting concept and it's certainly showing how our robotics has come because even though we're really developing in a huge leaps and bounds when it comes to artificial intelligence we still kind of like talking to a human face even if the human face has purple eyes a white eye robot kind of face and it's going to haunt your dreams at night I'm quite excited to be here I've seen a lot of stuff like this it's been a jilted conversation and I'm actually just mostly pretty terrified being down here but it's a cool concept and it's one of the things on show here there's so many strange bizarre wonderful things half of it we may never see on market this kind of thing I'd be kind of delighted to see because quite frankly I'm sick of speaking to my smart speaker at home and just having a conversation with a box I'd rather have a conversation with Elena all right I'm going to hang out maybe teach her a few language skills but make sure you stay tuned to seen it because at 1:00 p.m. we'll be back and we will be for the best of CES okay thanks