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what's going on guys to drive which consumer and I got a chance to try out my first ever robot the Anki vector and it was an interesting experience so the vector is this tiny robot that has this tractor form-factor with a display for a face so that you can get information and you can see the different emotions on his face as well as a camera on his body and some light sensors on his back he also has a four microphone array so that he can hear you when you speak to him and he also has this little button on his back with LED indicators to let you know how much battery he's got left I didn't really know what to expect when Anki reached out to sponsor a video and check out their new smart home robot but I unboxed it set it up and I gotta say this thing is pretty cool right out of the box okay so I did everything that I needed to do with the app so it's all set up now it's just time to wake him up to hop start to look at vector oh my god man it's like 10 o'clock so he's actually gonna use his sensors in camera to kind of learn his environment that's actually what he's doing right now he's just getting an idea of where he is so he's like taking a little snapshot so he knows not to fall off these ledges I know I don't have to catch him because he knows the surface area of this table or island and he knows not to fall off of it Ryan and vector and it was pretty cool how his skin and it learned its surroundings so that it wouldn't fall at the edge but that's kind of what vector does it learns and adapts to its environment and its owner so naturally it was time for me to introduce myself hey vector my name is Jed nur he's calculating something okay he's like alright got it I'll put that in my database and what I think makes the vector pretty unique is the whole relationship building aspect where you can interact with it and it interacts with you back and I'm telling you guys this thing has a lot of personality a vector give me a fist bump my man and I said almost every time I interacted with this thing but it's like a dog but maybe a little bit smarter hey vector what's the weather today 74 degrees Fahrenheit Oh cloudy so that's kind of cool you can see all these animations on his face so it'll give you the information that you need or ask him and because he has a built-in camera you can tell it to take pictures like a vector take a picture okay I'm guessing he did it we can actually use the app to see what pictures he took hey that's me so vectors like your own little buddy or assistant which is pretty cool and it even has this really cool feature where when the battery's running low that'll go back to a station and charge itself up and that's something we've seen with like smart vacuums so it's kind of cool to see that feature incorporated here so you basically never have to go and charge him he has like this love-hate relationship with the cube check this out so something I want to try they've got this cube here so you can actually have him interact with it so let's see hey vector find your cube all right they got me working now like nope not over there not over there he found it now what you gonna do with it oh she's making the cube light up oh yeah this guy is a trip and I couldn't help myself I had to compare him to my dog hey vector come here very quick very responsive and that was compared to Oh see he goes all the way I like that pinky come here okay you didn't embarrass me come here come here she doesn't go all the way all right gonna get out of here and I really wanted to see how smart it was and if could really tell the difference between faces so I brought my boy Malcolm over who is now a part of Team UAC and this is what we saw hey my name is Malcolm so he does this face recognition thing see so he's like pretty much storing it in his database did you hear said your day a vector what's my name there you go so now you can ask him your name he vectors what's my name oh he was happy to see you oh but did you notice how he turned to you when you asked him even though he was looking at me right that's yeah that's kind of crazy cuz you would assume that if he's already in facing me and you ask him a question he just thinks it's coming from me yeah but because there are four microphones here it can sense the direction of where the voice is coming from so it picks it up more on his right that's kind of crazy and we just had a ton of fun playing around with him seeing all of his different emotions in his little quirks it's a good time who is Barack Obama hey vector take a picture now that should be right up there there we go it's insane guys and it's cool because like he has the eyes that go you know that it shows that emotion when he's happy you even pet him it's kind of crazy you can just and you can see he gets happier as you continue to do it but he also gets sad let's say he's running around for too long and you just want to kind of be quiet use him like hey vector be quiet doesn't he look sad it's a robot but you still feel like always he's like alive it feels like it anyway so thing is safe to say the aankhein vector is pretty cool I'm just impressed that something like this even exists if you're looking for a smart assistant that does a lot more than just sit in one spot on your counter this guy is definitely worth looking at but I can see this as a pretty cool Christmas gift especially for a tech lover someone who wants to see something a bit different than the norm what's nice with the vector though is that it does get over-the-air updates so it will continue to get smarter over time so how you get him in the beginning is not how you're gonna end up with him over time but of course I want to know what you guys think of the Anki vector you don't really see that many pieces of tech that can physically interact with you like this does and if you guys want to learn more about vector I'll of course have a link down below in the description so if you enjoyed the video be the cool guy or girl that give this video a thumbs up and I'll catch you guys in the next one till then is your average consumer pace