hey vector my name is dieter indict her apparently this little guy right here
his name vector he's a home robot for monkey and here's a question what can
you do with know if you're familiar with Anki you know that they make another
robot called Cosmo that looks a lot like this little dude but the differences are
that this thing is way more powerful it's designed to be always on it's
connected to Wi-Fi and it knows what's going on around it all the time it's
just sort of looking around hanging out and it has a lot more powerful
technology and it - so there's a laser sensor on the front a little capacitive
sensor here so I can feel if you're petting it it has four microphones so it
can hear you say its name and respond to you and answer questions like what's the
weather like to understand what all of that means we came to aki's offices here
in San Francisco to talk to the people that made vector and find out what they
think you can do with it Augie calls vector a home robot which
makes you think about Rosie from the Jetsons but vector can't really do that
much it can do some very basic assistant stuff like Alexa but Aki is spending way
more time working on the robots personality than its utility you can
think of them as an older brother for Cosmo but definitely not Cosmo hey
Victor I have a question what's the distance from San Francisco to Los
Angeles
hey vector set a timer for 10 seconds
every one of our products will be a character it'll have a name it'll be
different personalities because if you have a robot that helps you with you
know with something more functional where he's it meant to do something in
healthcare or security or something like that it's a very different type of
personality but still has to be an interface that's actually very intuitive
and very warm a robotic personality could very quickly become really
gimmicky so Becker doesn't actually talk too much it just sort of chirps and
beeps like a little Joyce unless you specifically ask it a question but more
importantly its actions are designed to react to the environment which makes it
feel a little bit more alive we really placed close to tension to have
behaviors be based on either sensors or what the user is is doing so that was a
big piece for us not just having a robot who was entertaining briefly but
something that felt very alive over the course of the day the thing that's
really different is that he has interactions that are physical and based
on you hanging out with him so if you turn on music he'll pick up the exact
beat and he'll start dancing to the beat right like that's new or you know if I
pet him he'll get really blissed-out by it then there's things that we didn't
design that just happened so if you turn on the TV he will watch that TV because
he's listening to the sound yeah and then the screen triggers his motion
detector so you guys really interested by different things personality may go a
long way but is that really enough reason to buy a quote-unquote home robot
when you think about kind of that stereotype of the humanoid robot you end
up going into a bad place for two reasons one has you hit a price point
that is totally impractical for the level capability as possible today right
and you end up pigeonholing yourself because you end up trying to match the
strengths and weaknesses of a human which don't map perfectly to the
strengths and weaknesses of robotics today and if you miss anything you hit
on candy in Kenny Valley which is a basically creepy and I'm not
by making a character it's very humanistic in his qualities but far but
not trying to sound or look or feel like a human you actually can better match
your strengths and your weaknesses and avoid the weaknesses right
you can set expectations expectations right away because and so the fact that
he's still a cute little character I don't expect him to give me a beer which
is the test exactly right so vector can't bring you a cold one but
that doesn't mean it's not technologically advanced it basically
has the guts of a smartphone inside it including a faster processor and Wi-Fi
which means that it can always stay connected to the internet and doesn't
really need you to take care of it it can hang out on its own find its own
charger and not fall off the table it does a lot of that with surprisingly
advanced computer vision for such a tiny package so what you're seeing here is a
visualization of the robot and as I turn him he can feel it by virtue of that
gyro I talked about yeah he knows he's turning in space and you can also see
he's building slowly building a map so I'm gonna manually drive him around so
you can see he can see is cube in 3d and again like I was saying before that's
using the marker and if I move that around you can see it moves in three two
one and now I'm gonna show you show them the cube and sees it just and he's able
to position it and there's exactly where that is really dumb to the millimeter
Wow that's what it takes for him to pick it
up so is it able to place our faces and space as well in this map yeah see in
your eyes nose and mouth there and if we if we introduce ourselves to him he'll
eventually associate a name with each of these places you're the green when I'm
shading on the blue lampshade moving in space and you can see if I move closer
it will also move move closer this thing can recognize faces how are you doing
facial recognition on a little tiny robot what's interesting is most
people's eyes are about the same distance apart so that's a that's a
known distances which is all we really need so by realizing how far apart my
iOS eyes are in the image I can tell how far away the face is roughly but it lets
him remember where I am in space which means that if he decides he's gonna pick
up that cube he turns around drives over here uh-huh he remembers I'm here and
that allows him to do something we call referencing which is something kids also
do right before they they want to do something they often sort of look up at
you make sure you're watching them he can do that as well it can turn back and
check me out and then go and pick up this cube
and what's powerful about that is it it takes it from being an experience where
you're watching a robot pick up a cube to one where you're sort of drawn into
the experience and in doing it doing in with him or Brad boy
he can tell if you're making eye contact he can tell if we're looking at each
other instead of him right so we can also use that information to drive his
behaviors hey vector fist-bump you keep treating around we drive around he's
sitting in his home right now imagining we put him on our counter like say on
the floor a coffee table a party yeah so living-room coffee table kitchen table
there's a we'd have a an accessory that's kind of like his habitat and the
keys that he's always on you forget you should forget that you there is an
on/off switch he'll charge himself go back his charger
he'll be sleeping for part of the day he'll wake up when something interesting
happens and I wanted this is gonna be the magic that builds out all of the
subtleties around him being alive punky is launching the vector robot on
Kickstarter today and when it ships in October it's gonna retail for about 250
bucks but if you get this thing don't expect it to have the same utility is
even a $50 Amazon echo after all this thing is only part digital assistant
it's also part toy and part I don't know little cute robot pet thing but what it
actually is is a chance to experience what it's like to have an autonomous
robot in your house it turns out the main utility of the vector robot is
something we don't talk about very much in tech it's fun thanks so much for
watching I want to know what would you do if you had a little tiny robot in
your house let me know in the comments and oh hey one more thing we're gonna be
taking a little break I've got jury duty people got vacations and we'll be back
sometime in September and so I'm just gonna roll this on for a little bit
longer because that's what I do goodbye
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