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does this look like an escapee from a Pixar movie come to life it's meant to unki Cosmo is a fully autonomous robot toy that's here for the holidays and through a mix of animation design and some AI it's made to look incredibly cute Cosmo can recognize faces and can recognize objects and distance with its built-in camera it plays with three included connected blocks it can be used as a remote control robot and it plays games with you warning it likes to win it'll charm the heck out of your kids too to make Cosmo work you need to pair it with an iPhone or Android phone over Wi-Fi the Cosmo app has unlockable skills and some games some are available now others are coming before Christmas and Anki plans to add more abilities over time a programming SDK will open up later this year for those who know a hack with Python and after that they are planning a child friendly programming update in the future but right now Cosmo is more about discovery and playing and seeing what it'll do and Cosmo is expensive at $180 it's probably a lot more than a lot of people would want to pay for a robot to it a cosmo packs a ton of tech into a tiny body and its clever use of classic animation tricks adds a ton of personality that's where even larger robots in the real world could start going next