Gadgetory

it's really about exploring or setting bounds understanding the bounding conditions that we have there's technologies that are in the zooks that we actually are working on today we have in prototypes that we've shared though it doesn't look anything like this as part of every Lego design process whenever we're raising new products whatever they are we always of course involved the kids in that process we get a lot of input things that work things that don't work things they understand they don't understand and then we make sure we we turn up those things that they would really want to see in the models and then during the creation of the models where we're really going into the details about how the models are made and we're continuously putting the models back in front of the kids to get them to play with them to get them to make sure that things don't fall off when they drive them around I think every generation has something that is a challenge to accept my generation it was mobile phones the first mobile phones had fake aerials so that you believe they could actually communicate and now you give kid a piece of glass and it's a nerf of course it can it and I think that's going to be the same with this technology as well these machines work in a site where yes there's no operator with the machine but there's still people in a site that are managing multiple machines or different work steps within a site and so again to have that personality or that bit that connects with the individuals that are still working and the site is extremely important and in a lot of cases with autonomy we want to get people out of dangerous environments first it provides that opportunity to take the person out of dangerous spaces and allows them to work in a safe environment they understand that this machine is something different because there is no driver's cab there is a camera there is this little nothing drunk and they tell us lots of stories about how it could go in dangerous environments how it could go places where we can't go to but be great because then it could do this or this you know all sorts of stories and it was really interesting to draw from their knowledge about what they expected to see in these types of papers we have the you know the really knowledgeable guys and engineers from Volvo that have this you know incredible knowledge about how a machine should work today and how it could work in the future and then you have the the LEGO Technic designers that have a huge knowledge of how machines work because they're making different versions of them but again maybe they're not as restricted as the as the real designers because no one's ever told me you can't do it so it gives an amazing opportunity to to get those two teams together you get the knowledge and you get this kind of naivety and you put it together and this is kind of like the result of that the main purpose that we have with the wheel loader is to move material to point A to point B and so right now an operator is physically in the machine and doing that now an operator could be running multiple machines to do multiple steps of moving material so still working as a partner but not actually in the machine to to channel the work effort the vehicle knows where it is the biggest question is you don't necessarily know that it knows and you can have that sense that okay it's fine I believe it's wrong but you miss that interaction you get just from simply crossing the road and you see a car waiting at a junction you instinctively make eye contact with the driver you know that they've seen you you know it's safe to walk across in front of them it's the same kind of thing this but how do you get that interaction so by having this this movable camera which pilot started as a to a camera and we said well machine doesn't need it it's got sensors and then we kind of realized that well no the machine doesn't need it but maybe we need it and so by having this camera which you know sort of just just turn to look at you as you walk past or as it drives past you it gives you that confidence to know that the machine is senior and that's really the kind of the human element for this is is really important to us and it it really became I think one of the most proudest features of the