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I'm Paul Sloane of cnet I'm at CES and we're talking to keller renato of remote of high and he's got these robots that are controlled with smartphones show us how they work and tell us what they do sure so this is Romo he is a robot that uses your smartphone as his brain because Romo leverages the power of a smartphone's processor he's smart he's really flexible and he's also cheap to build so currently you can control Romo's motion from any smart device anywhere in the world because we go through the headphone jack he works for Android iOS and windows phones so is it just for fun or takes pictures can you use it to spy on people tell us all the youth scenario the use cases here sure so a lot of people who have bought him in the last in the last couple months do it because kids love playing with them they spy on each other they drive it around they like you know getting him to a moat and smile and they can annoy each other with him but he's also useful because you can use them as a telepresence robot so you could if you left horn at the office you could drive it around the office and see what's going on at the office when you're abroad or if you left it at home if you had teenagers who party too much and you were traveling in Europe you could always you know dr roma out of the bedroom when you're in beijing you could take your ipad out activate romo drive them out of the bedroom and the one of the coolest things about it is that it's a really open platform so anybody who is out there who writes for iOS or for android can go to our website download the movement library and can code their own behaviors and personalities for romo and it's really easy to distribute those personalities to all of our users and so you're making you're making these out of an apartment now I hear yes funny stories so we weren't expecting to grow quite as quickly as we have so we sold that we built and shipped 100 robots in December we have pre-sold about 2,000 robots that are going out in February and those are getting bolts in our apartment so we hired like for nerds from UNLV to come and basically live our government in Las Vegas and run an assembly line like building robots every single day 8 hours a day so it's you know it's it's a little bit like a sweatshop right here in Las Vegas it's like a startup sweatshop but um yeah we build them by hand here in Las Vegas and where they available they're available right now on our website remote of calm their 99 bucks and you know you can support like robotics which is totally awesome and they're easy to use their fun to play with make a great conversation starter at parties and stuff like that so thanks so much when Paul Sloan with cnet here at CES thanks