Gadgetory

this is Cosmo Cosmo Cosmo Cosmo is a rambunctious little kid a little bit mischievous he's smart a lot of robot in a very small package all the technology inside of Cosmo is really there for one reason to bring the magic of robotic character to life it's a very complex system and has for transmissions inside of it with probably 40 or 50 years each robot is made out of over 300 different parts there's the AI systems the robotics accelerometers the animation gyros the computer vision we're running an extremely complicated artificial intelligence inside the robot which needs to make thousands and thousands of decisions per second he's a mobile manipulator he can drive around the world he can see you can recognize you he looked up at me and his eyes went whoa and I was like well he just recognized me gives you goosebumps because you realize that this is a little character who actually understands who you are and what role you play in his world figuring out the path to a unique personalities it's an ongoing question I think we did about 40-50 Studies on just little nuances looking at the interface with the monitor where the eyes are going to look at you Cosmo Wolf's the head follows you every little detail had its special attention paid to it we literally have a rigged up version of Cosmo in Maya where our animators can animate him using the exact same techniques that they would use for digital characters except the output isn't rendered the output is actually caused by behaving in the real world we've been looking for ways to make it either feel more organic more imperfect so that it feels smaller than he made it sound is a critical piece it's the one dimension where we have full control just like in a movie or a video game we're building his procedural voice system we're doing all these things so that as you interact with Cosmo he becomes his own thing one of the things that makes Cosmo so surprising and so loveable as that he defies your expectations we're creating something that really does feel like it's part of the family those are the moments usually don't share with machines or robots until now introducing ANFO a $59 robot anyone can adopt an PO is an affordable educational and easy to assemble robot it takes less than an hour to assemble and we'll teach you about robotics the ant Bo has six legs and walks just like an ant plus it is also a robot and plus robot equals and both designed for anyone with an inquisitive mind an PO is a great starting point for young inventors and for people interested in steam education even if you are not a maker it is still a cool robot companion then you will have fun with once assembled you can control ant bo-lieve remote by your own voice or even by drawing lines with more than one ant Bo you can even make them fight each other and Bo enhances problem-solving abilities when you are familiar with how it works tweak its code and make it do different things you can also upgrade your robot with dozens of different sensor modules and program it via arduino scratch or when do an po is connected it collects user data and uploads it to the cloud users will be able to check metrics like distance skill levels and accomplishments and share with friends an PO is intelligent it has 30 neurons that enable it to learn to adapt just like a real creature as time goes it becomes smarter faster and more capable empo also has emotional reactions to different scenarios for example glancing left and right when it feels inquisitive trembling when it feels threatened and showing affection and loyalty i want you to have this because when I was young it taught me a valuable lesson about saving for what I wanted I know it may look like just a piggy bank but it's much more than that it's linked to your own very first savings and there's no limit what you can put into it you set up your goals and what you want to save for and then tasks can be assigned to do around the house if it can you take out the trash this is earning enough to get all right now that are worth money towards your going take out the trash please like take out the trash it'll teach you about responsibility your kind of reward while making savings fun ready hey and instill a sense of accountability as well you learn that setbacks won't get in the way of getting to those goals if you work hard show a good sense of determination do everything else render no I can think of and approach things with an optimistic attitude those goals are attainable the lesson that's the most important the one thing to never forget tax that's why I want you to have this you might be a little too young but you'll get there imagination is a beautiful thing it's the source of our big ideas and it makes us want to bring them to life introducing cell robot a modular robot built to inspire the month it uses the cells as components that allow you to build and expand your robot to many forms the cells are powered by a heart a lithium-ion battery that provides power to the cell as soon as it's connected giving life to your robot choose from the many dozens of pre-designed robots from the shape library follow the helpful tutorials to walk you through construction easily combine cells together through a twist and lock motion then control your cell robot from the app additional accessories allow you to expand your ideas further by adding wheels amount and even a camera and you don't just need to stick to the instructions in custom mode you can build anything you can imagine program movements for each individual cell using custom mode in the app then watch it go what you make is up to you cell robot is an extension of your imagination a platform for combining building with creativity share your imagined inventions and inspire your friends what will you build cell robot traditional construction bricks are a work of genius when it comes to building rigid structures but when you add flex oh and the little creativity a new door opens to a world of flexibility flexo when added to regular construction bricks changes the dynamic of building and adds new functionality flexibility strength and support we have seen but a fraction of what the system can do in the hands of Master Builders my name's James and I'm the son of Mike the creator of Flik sir when I saw the product I just thought you know this is something pretty special pretty amazing and really wanted to get on board with it and be a part of what flicks ours and what it can offer wind flicks I was designed we wanted to give people the opportunity to really unleash their creativity and that in turn would just absolutely maximize the enjoyment they get out of their sets of construction Brooks what led me to develop flex though was that I was enough physio and I had a torn tendon and I was just amazed absolutely amazed at the beauty of the body and how bones and tendons work together it was a you know bone is a very fixed construction and then a tendon allows our fixed construction to move with elegance so how does flexor work it's really simple the ends of the flexor tendon fits snugly into the openings of the flexor brick and when you want to get really extreme you can further secure the flexor tendon by placing another brick flexo or otherwise on top then you can twist Bend stretch and flex to your heart's content the only limitation to what you create is the vast expanse of your imagination and your flexo collection so flicks those an add-on to regular construction bricks it was designed to add to the experience and the opportunity that regular construction bricks allow in terms of creativity as well as design and ideas it allows you to for a very small investment basically and twice if not three times the functionality to the existing brick collection already have new ideas and uses are coming up every day with flexo and how it interacts with construction bricks it can provide rigidity flexibility stored energy playability and even bling ability just like you we love construction bricks and we love our collections and what we can build with them we want to add to that with the release of flexo