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alright let's go look at some rail robots yeah that's a good idea all right so we're gonna talk to you guys a little bit this morning about Ava Ava is a prototype platform that we put together over the last couple of years essentially a robotic concept car - so what ava is all about is autonomous mobility and navigation right so she is able to go into a space map that space understand where she is within that space and then get from point A to point B within that space without wanting anything at people or things first kita Ava is her mobility so she has what's called holonomic mobility between she can rotate in place and straight side to side she's moving forward and backward I'm shooting diagonally basically and you any direction while maintaining any orientation so very human-like yeah contact bumper so if she brushes against something or something or she's hurting your way we have some cliff sensors underneath those are so that you know those immune off the top of staircases recently moving up we've got several sensors here so these two windows in the front for a laser scanner and a sonar scanning sensor so basically those are the two sensors that are the primary mapping sensor so we bring Ava into a space and we want to make a map of that space these are the two sensors that are used to do that moving up we've got this vertical articulation on the platform so this is one of the things we thought about that you know you might want to have interactions with someone standing or the someone seated in addition we like to be able to get our nice and glow when we're driving so that we can get a nice low center of gravity and maintain the human walking speeds a great quick catch that's running bookie you very similar to the tap somebody on the shoulder the attendant look if you do a longer push and hold it's kind of Lee get out of my personal space then in addition you can the up and down buttons if you pinch them together so kind of do this rotate towards Center feature and if you do that right in front she'll kind of come along we've got some some audio stuff here microphones and speakers and then The Reluctant sensor for our ability to detect and avoid obstacles is this sensor right here and there's another one underneath this piece which we call the shoulder those are through the sensors that are made by plumbing called primeSense so very similar to what's in the Xbox Kinect so this is the cad map of the area that we're in that we got from our building facilities folks but i want to send a robot somewhere it's as simple as touching that spot on the map saying send robot so she does a couple of things we've got this visible camera in that crime sensor that's on the chin if you will of the robot and the icon updating on the map properly this is a an Android tablet so I'm showing again that we're tablet OS agnostic there's nothing particular to iOS or Android about what we're doing here I'm gonna connect this application and you'll see immediately I get a 3d model of the robot put in a coordinate space on the on the tablet the robot is taking the pictures with the prime sensor right now and it'll stitch those together so that I get 180 degrees of depth information you know this is an early look at what this could be you know you notice some issues there are shadows behind things you know because the camera can't see behind things but using this I cannot control the robot in that interface just by dragging it you know where I want it to go very similar to a lot of video game interfaces how much our goal at first is for the sort of price points that could be W markets the you know retail and security and office telepresence type of markets we have not announced launch dates right now our first application will be in the healthcare space in with a one we have not announced logically the thing that will sell the most of these robots is probably something we haven't bought in but you know we can get them up there and quantity and yet get them in developers hands somebody who come up with something amazing that will sell tons of to throw bottles right same way Angry Birds if you want to take a quick look at the way you might be working in the future be sure to keep your eye on Ava and sod Rihanna and like from TechnoBuffalo calm and we'll see you in the next video you