Gadgetory

hey everybody this is Ross for The Verge and this is my new best robot friends oh say hi zou zou is made possible by a row box kit known as zero my company called zero UI and what I love about this is everything is built in and built around the idea of using hand gestures to control and this is the glove right here a little sensitive right now I'm still learning to drive though but more or less though does what I what I asked it to so right now if I'm twisting my hand a little to and fro as I was gonna kind of turn to the camera I use a gesture here to wave one hand away the other wave both and spin a little bit that is clearly my thumb kind of going off the rails but I will say though is actually really responsive this is maybe a little more of a sensitivity setting than I was comfortable at first but I'm kind of getting the hang him and kind of enjoying his I'm really enjoying the temperamental behavior I'll say that so this arm over box kit was and then we actually got to see earlier this year at CES they've had an IndieGoGo campaign it is just about wrapped up and the goal now they're funded is to kind of get these kids out to people do funders especially by the beginning of next year and we've seen robotics kits before we've seen a lot of people like Lego obviously does them Arduino is big maker thing and to be honest the supports that stuff this is actually a pretty open API but even if you don't need to do all that and you just kind of want to like learn to make robotics this is a very self-contained unit you can use one to make a robot you can use up to eight each kit comes with four of these sensors and all it does is it connects over Wi-Fi this kid is doing bluetooth but the final product will connect over Wi-Fi and using a smartphone app you basically kind of program which gesture you want to make kind of which motion and motions we defined as kind of twisting clockwise or counter clockwise on each side or not moving at all and that's kind of how you start pantomiming these kind of motions really again this robot is just a series of limbs and axles that you kind of control your will the system itself is a very drag-and-drop is very very user friendly it does take a little fun angle and you want to figure out which direction the arm is gonna go but it's again it's a fun educational experience to do that and again however you want to control that and kind of program it is to you and that is the gist Azzaro again this is one of the many examples they're gonna have it ships starting early next year after they go into manufacturing which is once the IndieGoGo campaign is done and then once they kind of get the early funders out of the way it'll be on sale elsewhere shipping elsewhere educators makers hobbyists tinker's and very lonely people who like cardboard robot friends like me just shake it which is the universal sign of turning things on phrasing I'm just going to please cut that line up a middle higher the right oh and oh yeah I'm gonna need to hand shake that one