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so this video from CES 2018 is brought to you by group Renault check out our video there symbiote Zelo car at the link in the video description Haji bow are you ready I'm ready for anything well I'm ready for anything that I've been programmed to be ready for it so as you can probably imagine team G bow was well let's just say they recognized our crew when we were walking by on the show floor here at CES and they actually had some pretty specific responses to some of the criticisms we had of their geebo home robot first of all Haji bow who's the President of the United States Donald Trump is the president of the United States so there you go Jibo knows what's up now and they've made a lot of improvements since then rolling out OTA updates about every two weeks now there's actually been one small hardware tweak as well the screen has been swapped out for a higher resolution one with rounded corners unfortunately it's not OLED this supply is just not there yet but hey it's a small improvement and we'll take it now let's talk about the software updates because there have been a ton tweaks to camera processing for better pictures what they're calling fresh and lively features to make Gebo a little more topical like a snow globe during the holidays geebo can now play music through iHeartRadio so at this time there's not a ton you can do in terms of voice controls and he still doesn't support services like Spotify but they are expecting to add more services and the ability to do things like TiVo play the next song in the near future the team has added a new commander mode that actually allows you to see through G Bo's eyes which lights up a purple LED revealing that G bow has full RGB lighting in his LED strip and in fact there is probably other hardware lying dormant under the hood and the GEVO team has in fact confirmed that for us another feature of commander mode is the ability to type a message and have G Bo say it - Texas is the best so you can be looking around you can go hey this room's pretty messy hey there's my son yo kid clean your room and giba will say it well in a in a nicer way geebo now uses information from Google in addition to the previous sources and can also do live sports tours even adding a little bit of color commentary to the mix like the Celtics are crushing the Knicks integration with Philips hue nest and Allrecipes is coming as is a find my phone function something that I'm sure that we can all relate to a big priority for the development team is personalized report so debo will see you and say something like hey Linus you got to get going oh by the way it's raining so you might want to grab an umbrella on your way out the door or if I were to give debo an instruction like when you see my wife can you ask her to pick up some groceries next time she's at the grocery store debo can pass along that instruction using his facial recognition now to be clear I still have a lot of doubts about Jibo and for that matter smart assistants in general for as long as they are stationary but it's clear that the geebo team is a taking feedback seriously and be continuing their software development work so I do look forward to seeing how it continues to change in the future and we will be able to do that because the winning bid for our sign G bow was an epic troll so we still have it thanks for checking out this video from CES 2018 this video was brought to you by group Rando you guys got to check out their symbioses demo car we've got a video linked in the description but they did a full demo allowing me to take it out on real French roads with real drivers around at a level for autonomous operating level so that means that I was sitting in that thing going okay I'm leaned way back there's a big screen here I cannot even see over the dashboard and this car is straight up driving itself telegraphing its moves around other vehicles as we change lanes and even being able to operate autonomously with the driver wearing a VR headset I was a driver I was wearing a VR headset and they had the sensors of the car actually dialed into the VR headset and the programming for it so that you could be driving in this like fantastical environment like I had like a flock of birds go by and I kind of went like this and it was an actual car totally crazy go check it out to see what group renault is doing in the space of autonomous car innovation so thanks for watching guys if you dislike this video you can hit that button but if you liked it hit like get subscribed and maybe consider checking out where to buy the stuff we featured because this is one of the few things we've covered at the show that you can actually buy today but whether or not you should is still up to you Haji Bo how'd I do sorry ouch