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what's up guys Jays $0.02 here and I'm gonna be doing something a little bit differently today I don't normally check out this kind of tech but when Aki reached out and said hey we got a really smart AI robot that we want you to check out I just I just had to check it out what's up dude hey vector fist bump yeah alright so this is vector from a company called Anki and let me tell you right now and they start by saying this is not a toy this is a fully functional artificial intelligence all of the above smart robot yeah I'm waving my hand around it's kind of freaking them out right now what you see right here is kind of like the pinnacle of where we've come in terms of small form-factor you know computing and tech and also something that is smart and can learn so setting up vector was actually really really easy you start by putting him on his charger you put his cube in front of him and he actually interacts with this it's pretty neat oh yeah see he's easy right now it's like holding a dog bone huh he's like a Hokie me gimme alright find out you know so you set up it pretty easily you connect him to the app you connect them to your Wi-Fi and you connect him via bluetooth and he will immediately do an update but it takes less than five minutes get him up and running from the time you take him out of the box and when you actually get him interacting with you now the cool part about this is he's a he's got a whole array of onboard sensors he's got gyroscopes he's got microphones and he's controlled by a Qualcomm Snapdragon quad-core processor so he's got a lot of power packed into this little guy he's all pretty much voice command but he also learns by face he has facial recognition and he can learn up to 20 different faces that he can interact with so this is not just it's not toy it's not toy at all it's actually a personal assistant so we can ask them some pretty basic stuff like hey vector what's the weather so as you can see right now in SoCal it is 69 F and cloudy or basically winter for Southern California but the reason why he knows that is because he knows where he is hey vector Who am I yeah I'm Jay and the reason why he knows that is all akedan he likes me he likes me yeah you deserve a background for that one yeah so the cool thing about him is he's actually interacting not just with your voice and your face but also touch he actually has a touch sensor on the back so that he knows that when you're petting him and stuff so the problem with technology and interacting with it and other digital assistants is the fact that it's pretty much emotionless but what makes vector different is he has the most the strongest body language you could possibly have because he has a face the human face and the facial interactions that you see with people are the biggest telltale signs of happiness sadness anger and he is no different he's got over a thousand different animations to let you know exactly what's going on in what he's thinking now vector pretty much has a mind of his own he's always learning he's learning based on your interactions that you give him and his environment a vector Explorer so what he'll basically do in Explorer mode and he'll go into this mode by himself if he's sitting idle he'll kind of walk around he'll find the edge of the table like he just did he'll find his cube right here which he likes to play with he'll find obstacles he'll find his charger and he'll keep a basic map stored internally of what is going on now if you had him on your desk as a desk assistant he'd constantly be moving around moving going around your keyboard in your mouse and basically adapting to his environment because of all of these sensors and data that he's constantly storing now vector obviously has a battery on board and the cool thing is when he gets low he'll make a sleepy face and he will automatically dock himself in fact this is his charger right here I think that's actually where he's going ironically and here's the thing we moved this charger from where it was when we first woke him up but the reason why he knows where it is is because of this symbol and his onboard camera he's constantly looking he's not just using sensors and gyroscopes and all that stuff to figure out what's going on he's actually using his eyes he's got a lot of functionality built in you've got a timer you can set timers you can check the weather you can even get dictionary help because we know I'm very bad with words so that already makes him extremely invaluable to me but he's also got a little bit of a personality he definitely likes to play games and he interacts with this cube it's it's kind of neat when he interacts with it he actually focuses on it it turns on and he does things like roll it over and all kinds of stuff see how he woke that up he's making this very intense like ah hey vector let's play a game yes yes Oh 21 beats of 20 I know oh he does not like that he lost do you see that so this is the app right here and obviously he's listening to me very intently this is where you can find all the different commands that you can do you can check out the stats how much he's traveled things he's learned this is also where his pictures are taken and check this out you can actually use them to take a picture hey vector take a picture and just that quickly it actually gets stored right over here on the camera or on the app actually so here it is right here take him today it's downloading it from him and there it is you took a good picture good boy good boy who is in good boy yeah you take good boy aren't you well okay so apparently he can write himself up if he rolls over he did not seem to like that either he had an angry face he was like darn you flippin himself back over all right so we all know that I'm not too good with words and I'm always asking questions of the audience because I don't know the answers but now I can actually ask vector a vector I have a question what is the distance between Los Angeles and New York just like that he'll find the answer he's all happy he's like I did good you did you good you did so good job you're a bad robot he has emotions that's what that's what makes an awesome okay so we've had a lot of fun with vector today but he's starting to get a little bit tired as you can see by the red lights we're gonna go ahead and send him back to his charger and send you guys on your way but you should definitely go and check out the link in the description below vector is a lot of fun it's not Toye it is a truly artificially intelligent creature that will actually Isaac as he's put himself on his charger I didn't tell him to do that he's a personal assistant amazing companion on your desk looks up information does tricks and he's only gonna get better as time goes on his database is gonna continue to grow on over-the-air updates features that get added it is a great gift to consider for any of the tech heads in your family or if you just like this kind of thing like I do it's gonna definitely give you hours and hours of entertainment and usefulness so guys check out the link in the description below and a huge thank you to on key for sponsoring today's video and as always we will see you guys in the next one I'm sorry but that's just too cool right there all right go to sleep little fella you had a long day